A man who is accused of waging a urine and faeces-spraying campaign at two supermarkets, a pub and a bookshop caused £700,000 damage, a court heard yesterday.
Sahnoun Daifallah, 42, is alleged to have squirted a brown, foul-smelling substance from a spray container at four businesses in Gloucestershire on May 14 and 16 last year.
The court heard the man from White City, Gloucester, visited the Air Balloon pub at around 12.45pm on May 14 where police were called after he asked a barmaid Susan Lawson-Bagent how much it would cost to rape her.
When officers arrived Daifallah had gone but he had left a trail of stench behind him which the prosecution say was his calling card.
Stephen Dent, prosecuting, told the jury: “He mixed up an evil potion of various biological ingredients including his own faeces and urine.
“It was not until after he had left that staff started to notice a bad smell of excrement.
“We say that this was his little calling card because he did not like the way he had been treated.”
Daifallah then moved on to Waterstone’s bookstore in Cirencester where it is alleged he sprayed the brown substance all over a toilet in the coffee shop.
Staff noticed the smell but it was not until after he had left the store that they discovered a 20-metre area of 38 shelves had been doused in the foul substance.
In total 706 books were contaminated, most of them in the children’s section.
On May 16 at around 11am Daifallah is said to have visited the Tesco store in Quedgeley.
Mr Dent said a customer saw Daifallah reach into his laptop bag and produce a jet of fluid over the frozen chips.
He allegedly moved on to the wine section where a member of staff saw a fine vapour come from bag and on to the wine, leaving brown fluid over the shelves.
The store was closed for two days while it was cleaned and the cost of the damage was £421,000.
Daifallah is then alleged to have driven to the Morrisons store in Abbeydale where an employee in the wine section noticed him acting strangely.
Mr Dent said: “The assistant said that Mr Daifallah absolutely stunk, that he had to stop himself from gagging because of the strong smell of ammonia and urine.”
Daifallah, of Bibury Road, has pleaded not guilty to four charges of contaminating goods and two charges of damaging property of Waterstone’s and Morrisons.
He also denies possession of material to contaminate goods and having an offensive weapon, namely a catapult with marbles.
Daifallah has chosen to represent himself in court.
The jury was shown CCTV footage of a man dressed all in black, which the prosecution say is Daifallah, carrying a bag, entering and walking around Tesco and Morrisons.
The prosecution also showed the jury close-up pictures of the meat counter and dairy section of Morrisons where products were covered in a brown slurry.
Police arrived at Daifallah’s home 10 minutes after he left the Tesco store and while the incident was unfolding in Morrisons, and waited for him to return.
On searching the house they found messages scrawled all over the walls with what the prosecution say are fantasies about biological weapons.
One message said: “The ants get out to every direction to get food, then they bring it back to Tesco and Asda.
“If you poison those then you kill the ants.”
Police also found a camcorder bag containing sachets of excrement each labelled with the name of a city or town – Bristol, Cheltenham, Birmingham, Worcester, Cardiff and Gloucester. Bottles containing faeces and urine were also found in his kitchen and car.
Daifallah told police that someone else had written the messages on his walls and said that he used the spray for his garden.
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