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Tristan Kirk

Solicitor who injected syringes of blood into supermarket food ‘was insane’, jury finds

Police officers in forensic suits speak to a colleague outside Tesco Express on Fulham Palace Road (Jonathan Brady/PA)

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A solicitor who injected food at Tesco, Sainsbury’s, and Waitrose with syringes filled with his own blood was insane at the time of the incident, a jury has concluded.

Leoaai Elghareeb, 37, sparked panic in the aisles and caused almost £500,000 of damage when he took a bucket full of syringes into stores along Fulham Palace Road.

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