Mum Tells Of Horror At Finding Blade In Baby's Food 'Put There By Farmer'

A mother told a court how she came within millimetres of feeding her son a craft knife blade planted in a jar of baby food.

Morven Smith spotted the metal shard after passing her 10-month-old son a few spoonfuls of the Heinz sweet and sour chicken.

Her husband then found a second shard in the jar, the Old Bailey heard.

Mrs Smith, of Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway, told jurors in a statement: “It was horrendous. I felt sick I was so shocked.”

Prosecutors say Nigel Wright, 45, spiked baby food jars in a campaign lasting nearly two years to extort bitcoin worth £1.4million from Tesco.