Biological weapons fantasist sprays shops with faeces and urine

An Algerian chemist was has been found guilty of contaminating goods by spraying supermarkets, a bookshop and a pub with a mixture of urine and faeces.

Sahnoun Daifallah, 42, of Bibury Road Gloucester (BBC), was found guilty on four counts of contaminating goods at supermarkets Tesco and Morrisons, Waterstones bookshop and the Air Ballon pub near Cheltenham reports the This is Gloucester website. The jury at Bristol Crown Court heard that Daifallah first went to the Air Ballon pub, Birdlip, near Cheltenham on 14 May 2008 and asked a barmaid how much it would cost to rape her. Police officers arrived too late to catch Daifallah but he left a stench which was described by Prosecutor Stephen Dent as his calling card. He then went to a Waterstones bookshop in Cirencester and sprayed a brown substance all over a toilet. Two days later Daifallah went to a Tesco store in Quedgeley and was seen by a shopper spraying a brown fluid over the frozen chips and a member of staff witnessed him spraying the wine section. Daifallah was then seen acting strangely in a Morrison’s store in Abbeydale where an employee gagged at the horrible stench. Both stores were closed for two days for cleaning at an estimated cost of £700,000. The court heard that Daifallah carried out his campaign using a modified laptop computer bag to conceal a 1.5 litre weed-killer container. Police officers carried out a search of Daifallah’s flat and found plastic sachets containing excrement, containers of his urine/faeces mixture as well as messages scrawled on a wall relating to biological weapons and smuggling uranium into Britain. Judge Carol Hagen said: “I find this a very worrying case and the circumstances are alarming.” She deferred sentencing to a later date to allow time for psychiatric reports. Judge Hagen also warned Daifallah, who could be deported, that if he did not co-operate with the authorities for pre-sentence reports it would “reinforce my conclusion that I find you to be a potentially very dangerous man.” Daifallah defended himself in court and pleaded not guilty to all of the charges.