Shocking moment 'insane' man, 37, injects own BLOOD into food packets at supermarkets
Leoaai Elghareeb, 37, allegedly, a lawyer in the United Kingdom was caught on closed circuit TV cameras indulging in some truly revolting behavior. He was seen strolling into supermarkets and injecting grocery store food with his own blood on August 25 last year.
This shocking clip was presented to jurors at the Isleworth Crown Court on Tuesday, February 22. The 37-year old defendant Elghareeb was seen sticking syringes into fresh produce, meats, including apples, chicken tikka fillets, and certain packs of ready-to-eat meals. This footage was from a Sainsbury's supermarket. This incident does bring to mind the time a Colorado mom licked a supermarket fridge handle amid the height of Covid-19 and also when a prankster who licked Blue Bell ice cream tub at Walmart and put it back pleaded guilty.
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Elghareeb is alleged to have visited the Tesco, Waitrose and Sainsbury's outlets on Fulham Palace Road, where he allegedly injected food products using more than one syringe. “Along the way, he also threw some of the syringes at people inside and outside the store including hitting a passerby on the street," he court heard. Elghareeb's lawyer, Kyri Argyropoulos told the jury that, "This behavior was bizarre." He also said his client "was not of a fit and sane mind" when this happened.
Infusing the food packs was just stage one. The defendant, allegedly also threw eggs at the staff and some customers at Sainsbury's. He also pushed a security guard in the chest. To add to this, the bizarre behavior was not just inside the premises of the store. Elghareeb is also accused of flinging an empty needle at a surgeon of National Health Services outdoors. He hit the surgeon in her chest. He proceeded to pick up a potted plant and heaved it through the open doorway when he was finally detained outside a bar.
From all the crime scenes, a total of 21 syringes were recovered. As a precautionary measure, the affected stores threw out all the food and restock before welcoming customers again. This resulted in losses and costs of around $635,000 which is divided as $281,442.38 for Waitrose, $194,426.37 for Sainsbury's, and $159,024.64 for Tesco.
After hearing of these events, a psychiatrist said Elghareeb felt like he was living in a “Truman Show” simulation where “everything was fake” — a reference to the 1998 Jim Carrey comedy. The expert also added that the defendant believes a device had been implanted in his brain that led him to hoping his bizarre behavior would bring him the attention of the 'real' police. Jurors were told while it is agreed Elghareeb carried out the actions on August 25 2021, and he is fit to stand trial now, the defense will say he was "suffering from a disease of the mind so as not to know what he was doing was wrong.".The defendant's representative attorney said in conclusion that he "was extremely unwell at the time, as you have heard from two consultant psychiatrists . . . This was not the acts of someone who may feel is of a fit and sane mind.” Elghareeb has pleaded not guilty to the three counts of food contamination and two of assault under the reason of insanity.