[1][2] Nigel Wright, 45, from Lincolnshire was sentenced at the Central Criminal Court of England and Wales for blackmail after he plotted to extort £1.4 million from the supermarket company.
A series of letters and emails were sent to Tesco, threatening to contaminate baby food with salmonella, white powder and knives.
[1][2] In Lockerbie Morven Smith had already fed a few spoonfuls of Heinz sweet and sour chicken to her ten month old baby when she found a metal fragment in the bowl and removed it.
[1][2] Nigel Wright was a sheep farmer and had been the youngest ever chairman of the Great Grimsby Conservative association at the age of 29.
[1][2] 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".
[4] 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.