planting them in Rochdale. He claimed he was forced to do it because his family were threatened by Travellers. Both Morven Smith and Harpreet Kaur-Singh testified about the metal they had found in their children's food. Julian Christopher QC, the prosecutor, said "The truth is you were not in fear at all. You were carrying on your life normally while hoping to make yourself rich by threatening Tesco in this way while endangering the life of others in the process.". Conviction Nigel Wright was convicted of three charges of blackmail, two charges of contaminating food and a further charge of blackmail for demanding £150,000 worth of bitcoin from a driver with whom he had a road-rage altercation. Bill Jephson, the assistant chief constable in charge of the investigation for Hertfordshire police described it as "most serious and most challenging” product contamination case ever dealt with in the UK". Lucy Thompson, the deputy senior investigating officer said that there was no evidence to support Wright's claims that Travellers had threatened Wright and his family to force him to carry out the plot. Sentencing Sentencing was scheduled for 28 September 2020. Mr Justice Warby also asked for psychiatric reports on Wright to be prepared and warned Wright to be prepared for a "lengthy custodial sentence". In October 2020 Nigel Wright was sentenced to jail for 14 years - 11 years for the plot against Tesco and 3 years to run consecutively for the road rage blackmail conviction. Detective Inspector Lucy Thompson said "Wright is a dangerous offender who gave no thought to the babies he could have harmed during his callous pursuit of money." See also 2007 Tesco blackmail campaign Tesco bomb campaign References 2018 crimes in the United Kingdom 2019 crimes in the United Kingdom 2020 crimes in the United Kingdom Extortion Attacks on supermarkets 2010s in the United Kingdom 2020s in the United Kingdom Adulteration Tesco Extortion attempts against Tesco