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Former Biglaw Attorney Accused Of Injecting Blood Into Supermarket Food

The attorney is facing some wild allegations.

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If that headline isn’t enough to make your jaw drop open as you wonder, “what in the the actual shit,” then congratulations(?), you have achieved truly jaded lawyer status.

An attorney who previously worked at a trio of Biglaw firms — Allen & Overy, Herbert Smith Freehills, and Milbank — has been charged with contaminating or interfering with goods after allegedly injecting a syringe of blood into various food items at three different supermarkets in London. Leoaai Elghareeb, 37, currently runs his own legal consultancy business and appeared in court last week on charges related to the bizarre incident, as reported by Roll on Friday:

The solicitor appeared in court last week. The prosecution said Elghareeb entered the Waitrose store on Fulham Palace road on Wednesday 25th August at 7.30pm where he proceeded to use syringes “to inject food items with blood.” He then went on to inject food in a Tesco and Sainsbury’s store on the same road, said the prosecution, and threw eggs in the Sainsbury’s store. He was subsequently arrested.

The prosecution said the precise contents of the blood were not known at this stage, and food packages are being sent off for chemical testing.

According to a local “emergency alert” by police, “The food items affected are believed to be processed meat and microwaveable products.” And consumers were advised they throw away food purchased at the stores on the date of incident.

Elghareeb was remanded to custody, and a plea hearing was scheduled for later this month.

Kathryn Rubino is a Senior Editor at Above the Law, host of The Jabot podcast, and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer. AtL tipsters are the best, so please connect with her. Feel free to email her with any tips, questions, or comments and follow her on Twitter (@Kathryn1).

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