Deliberate

  • London judges’ food spiked with urine

    Posted: January 20th, 2012 - 10:51pm by Doug Powell

    Police are investigating allegations of food contamination at a crown court in east London after judges' lunches at Snaresbrook Crown Court were allegedly spiked with urine.

    The Sun newspaper said it was feared someone with a grudge against the justice system had launched a revenge campaign.

    Traces of urine were believed to have been found in soups, salads and sandwiches.

    A private dining room known as the advocates' lounge has been shut down until further notice, the newspaper said.

    Staff working there are believed to have been suspended while the probe goes on, it said, adding that all are thought to have been supplied to the court by Eurest Services, a division of catering giant Compass.

    A spokeswoman for Eurest Services said it was "aware of a suspected case of food contamination."

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  • Chinese billionaire dies after eating poisoned cat stew: police

    Posted: January 5th, 2012 - 3:27am by Doug Powell

    Chinese billionaire Long Liyuan died after dining on slow-boiled cat meat stew laced with the toxic herb Gelsemium elegans during a business lunch in the Guangdong province.

    The case became an online sensation after the police said they had detained the local official, Huang Guang, who had also been hospitalized with food poisoning after the Dec. 23 lunch, in the city of Yangjiang.

    The police now suspect that Mr. Huang slipped Gelsemium elegans into the stew while eating lunch with Long Liyuan, 49, who ran a forestry company, and another friend. To avoid suspicion, Mr. Huang apparently ate some of the stew himself. All three men were hospitalized, according to the police account, and Mr. Long died almost immediately.

    The police discovered evidence that Mr. Huang had embezzled money from Mr. Long, and detained him on Dec. 30.

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  • Sabotage continues on Australian crops; biosecurity measures prevented latest attack

    Posted: May 20th, 2011 - 8:11am by Doug Powell

    A saboteur who tried to poison a large strawberry crop in Queensland, Australia, has been foiled by tight security measures introduced after a similar attack in 2009.

    Gowinta Farms at Beerwah, on the Sunshine Coast, would have been facing multi-million dollar losses if staff had not discovered poison in the farm's water stores.

    Spokesman James Ashby said up to 170 acres of strawberries would have been lost and the incident, detected on Tuesday, was a lesson for all farmers about the importance of good security.

    After the 2009 attack, which destroyed a greenhouse crop of tomatoes and cucumbers, the farm imposed a system to drain water tanks at the end of each day and regularly test water quality.

    As a result, the presence of the poison was obvious to staff on Tuesday morning, Mr Ashby said.

    Meanwhile, police are still trying to find those responsible for a crop sabotage incident at Bowen in north Queensland in June last year.

    In that incident, Bowen Supa Seedlings lost more than seven million fruit and vegetable seedlings, destined to become crops for dozens of local growers, when its irrigation system was contaminated with herbicide.

    A neighbouring property that shared the irrigation system lost more than 16,000 mature tomato plants.


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  • How much food poisoning is deliberate?

    Posted: September 29th, 2008 - 4:54am by Doug Powell

    Not deliberately dumb, or deliberately daft, but deliberate with intent for death – or at least dysentery.

    Sweden’s security service Säpo is investigating possible sabotage following an incident which left 140 people at the headquarters of Confederation of Swedish Enterprise (Svenskt Näringsliv) suffering from dysentery.

    The victims, which included employees of the association, its members, and other guests, all suffered from the illness caused by the Shigella dysenteriae bacteria after eating in the office’s cafeteria several weeks ago, reports the Veckans Affärer magazine.

    According to the Metro newspaper, the group claiming responsibility for the attack is a left-leaning, internet-based forum which had previously staged demonstrations outside of the association’s headquarters.

    In Texas, an IHOP restaurant has been closed three times in the past five months for repeated occurrences of what health investigators call a rare Salmonella, type C; over 10 people have been sickened.

    Group C is a strain that researchers and health officials hardly ever see and it's so powerful it clings to surfaces and is more resistant to disinfection.

    Police have been called in to help with the investigation.
     

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