Meals manufacturing unit employee, 38, ‘spat in Nando’s sauces and spiked tubs of hummus with steel ring pulls and rubber gloves’
- Garry Jones, 38, is accused of spiking containers of sauces and dips
A meals manufacturing unit employee spat in Nando’s sauce tubs and contaminated hummus dips with ring pulls and rubber gloves, a courtroom heard.
Garry Jones, 38, is accused of spiking containers of sauces and dips whereas engaged on the manufacturing line.
A courtroom heard he intentionally added fish sauce to non-fish dressings and contaminated others with sesame and chilli sauce.
Jones tampered with the sauces whereas working at Harvey & Brockless Superb Meals Firm in Evesham, the courtroom heard.
The cost reads: ‘Between October 1, 2022, and November 1, 2022, with intent to trigger public alarm or harm to members of the general public – contaminated or interfered with items.
Garry Jones, 38, (pictured outdoors Worcester Magistrates Court docket) is accused of spiking containers of sauces and dips
The meals manufacturing unit employee is accused of spitting in Nando’s sauce tubs (Pictured: A Nando’s sharing platter)
‘Specifically 24 hummus tubs with rubber gloves, plastics baggage and steel ring pulls; steel ring pulls in tubs of sesame and ginger dressing, sesame miso dressing and
Vietnamese chilli and ginger dressing; and poured fish sauce into dressings which shouldn’t include fish.’
Mark Hambling, prosecuting, mentioned Jones was concerned within the manufacturing of the tubs of sauces and dips on the agency which had been then distributed to eating places nationwide together with the Nando’s group.
He mentioned: ‘Tubs started being returned to the corporate as contaminated main the agency to research.’
He added that eating places, the place the product was later served, would say ‘doesn’t include fish’ on their menus – so it might be probably lethal if consumed by somebody with an intolerance.
Jones allegedly tampered with the sauces whereas working at Harvey & Brockless Superb Meals Firm in Evesham
Mr Hambling mentioned on one event Jones had been caught on CCTV poking a gap in a plastic container which he then spat into.
Jones additionally faces a cost of housebreaking with intent to steal from the house of a co-worker.
Mark Turnbull, defending, described the fees as ‘uncommon’, as they had been ones he had by no means seen earlier than.
Jones, of Evesham, entered no plea to a cost of contaminating/interfering with items with intent.
He was given conditional bail and ordered to attend Worcester Crown Court docket on July 12.
