Michael Young was joiled for eight years for attempting to blackmail Europe’s biggest pumpkin farmer for £50,000 A former military policeman who threatened to poison tons of pumpkins with potassium cyanide in the run up to Halloween has been jailed for eight years. Michael Young, 53, told 70-year-old Lincolnshire farmer David Bowman that he had poisoned a large number of his pumpkins with the deadly substance and demanded £50,000.
In fact Young had injected only […]