London Man Injects Blood Into Supermarket Food, Video Presented In Court

The incidents happened in 3 supermarkets in London. The accused, Leoaai Elghareeb, is a practicing solicitor, who runs his own legal consultancy business.

A court in London is hearing a bizarre case of a man injecting his own blood in the food products kept in at least three supermarkets in west London. The man, Leoaai Elghareeb, has pleaded not guilty on the three counts of contaminating or interfering with goods with intent over a series of incidents which occurred in August last year.

In the latest update on the hearing, CCTV footage presented in the Isleworth Crown Court on Tuesday showed Elghareeb entering Tesco Express, Little Waitrose and Sainsbury's Local on Fulham Palace Road in west London, carrying a bucketful of hypodermic needles.

The footage, carried by nearly every major British media outlet, showed the 37-year-old jabbing food in the ready meal section of stores - which had apples, packets of chicken tikka fillets - with a syringe on August 25 last year. He then moved towards another section of the shop with a second syringe between his teeth.

Elghareeb is then seen entering the nearby Tesco and Little Waitrose stores before police arrived on the scene. The incident took place between 7pm and 8pm, according to the time stamp on the CCTV footage.