A lawyer in the United Kingdom is accused of injecting his blood into food in three supermarkets.
Security cameras captured the suspect, who was identified as Leoaai Elghareeb, from 37 years old, injecting blood syringes into apples, chicken tikka fillets and other ready-to-eat dishes.
The images were presented to jurors at Isleworth Royal Court this Tuesday as part of Elghareeb’s trial.
The defendant’s move was part of a chain of food contamination, on 25 last August, in which the man infected products in Sainsbury’s, Waitrose and Tesco establishments in Fulham, west of London.
“This behavior was bizarre,” said lawyer Kyri Argyropoulos. Elghareeb’s legal representative also argued that his client was mentally unwell at the time of the events.
The blood injections were not the only reprehensible actions of the lawyer. He allegedly threw eggs at employees at Sainsbury’s and shoved a security guard in the chest.
The The Independent media also reported that the man is accused of injecting a National Health Service surgeon with an empty syringe in an outdoor space.
Elghareeb was arrested outside a bar when he allegedly grabbed a plant in a pot and threw it against a door.
According to British media, a total of 21 syringes were recovered from the establishments.
Due to the above, the stores were forced to to throw away all their merchandise and replace the food, which meant thousands of dollars in losses for businesses.
At one of the court hearings, a psychiatrist testified that Elghareeb felt he was living in a simulation of “Truman Sh ow”, where everything is false; this in reference to the comedy of 1998 starring Jim Carrey. In addition, the doctor said that the man also believed that he had a device implanted in his brain and hoped that his reckless behavior would alert the Police to his ideas.