Algerian chemist jailed for nine years
An unemployed Algerian chemist dubbed a serious risk to the public was jailed for nine years today for contaminating food and wine by spraying his own urine and faeces in supermarkets.
Sahnoun Daifallah also sprayed the slurry over children’s books and in a pub as he carried out his foul campaign by concealing a 1.5 litre weed killer container in a lap top bag modified to allow the nozzle to poke out.
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Daifallah, 42, was last month found guilty of four counts of contaminating goods at Tesco and Morrisons in Gloucester, Waterstones bookstore in Cirencester and the Air Balloon pub near Birdlip on May 14 and 16 last year.
The incidents caused £700,000 of damage to products and in lost businesses when the stores had to close.
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When police searched his house they found stockpiles of the mixture and plans to spread the muck in other cities including Bristol and Birmingham.
Daifallah, who had fantasies about biological weapons to cause public alarm, was also found guilty of having an offensive weapon, namely a catapult with marbles.
Today Judge Carol Hagen said security agencies had labelled Algerian-born Daifallah, who has a degree in industrial chemistry, a very high risk to public safety.
She sentenced him at Bristol Crown Court today to concurrent sentences of three years, five years and two of nine years for the contamination offences and 12 months for possession of a weapon.
She told him that during the seven day trial, in which he had represented himself, she found him to be “arrogant and inflexible” in his thinking.
She added that she had wanted to jail him indefinitely but the law would not allow her to.
“Your actions showed a callous disregard for public safety and you caused considerable alarm and anxiety,” she said.
“You caused substantial police and forensic involvement given that the nature of the substances were not known.”
Proceedings to deport him have begun.
For a full report and background to the case, see tomorrow's Citizen
Comments
by Anon, Cheltenham
Thursday, April 16 2009, 10:32AM
“Assif - How is this in any way considered normal or traditional?! Condemning him for his perversion is hardly an injustice - he put people's health at risk and at the same time committed an act of vandalism costing hundreds of thousands of pounds. If this is normal or traditional where he comes from then we should have him deported and let him get on with it in his home country if they consider it acceptable there as here it is not.”
by matthew sidford, linden
Thursday, April 16 2009, 9:43AM
“What he did was pretty revolying I agree. Prison yes, but 9 years? Seems barmy to me. Unfortunately this man has provided a perfect excuse for the xenophobes to vent their spleen - as previous posts attest.”
by Sophie, Glos
Wednesday, April 15 2009, 1:47PM
“Stop his benefits, put him in prison then deport him. No good giving him community service as he could get up to anything whilst among the general public.”
by Leonie, Cheltenham
Wednesday, April 15 2009, 11:12AM
“I agree with Mim - I am surprised to. I think it's right that he has been jailed and agree that he should be locked up for as long as possible. But I thought the sentence would be much softer - because compare it to many re-offenders committing vandalism, assault, robbery, etc, and they keep getting handed ASBOs, suspended sentences, community service and so on. I actually think that in this case community service would be an appropriate punishment (in addition to jail) because for a man who clearly has some sort of personal vendetta against local businesses, supermarkets etc, perhaps it would a) open his eyes and b) be painful for him to do unpaid service for them.”
by Assif Mullahshi, Gloucester
Tuesday, April 14 2009, 10:21PM
“You should not mock the traditions of other societies and religions, it is considered normal for some peoples to do these things in some societies,and condemning this man for his perversion is an injustice.”
by Wanda, Stroud
Tuesday, April 14 2009, 7:43PM
“I really don't see why the British tax payer has to pay to keep such people in our prisons. If it infringes his human rights then he should have lost these rights through these actions.
On another tac, didn't someone recently get 6 years for killing 2 people in a car crash, possibly through drink driving? Some imbalance here.”
by Mal, Local
Tuesday, April 14 2009, 6:58PM
“Ask Algeria to pay the £700,000 to cover the damage or we'll put him on the next plane to Algiers with his stockpile of filth.”
by Racoon, Gloucester
Tuesday, April 14 2009, 6:05PM
“He'll come back and claim asylum and have it granted!”
by Paul, Churchdown
Tuesday, April 14 2009, 5:48PM
“As a supermarket worker, I am very pleased with this sentence and am even more pleased that deportation proceedings have begun. I hope this sends out a clear message that this sort of behaviour is not welcome anywhere.”
by Brian Hooper, gloucester
Tuesday, April 14 2009, 5:23PM
“i hope he gets his bollocks stomped to ribbons the filthy bastard.”