‘Supermarkets duped into selling horsemeat’

Horsemeat was unknowingly sold by supermarkets across the UK after a gang of three men secretly mixed it with beef and then falsified documents, a court has heard. The specific chain of events that led horsemeat to enter the food chain, sending shockwaves through the British food industry, has been publicly outlined for the first time in the trial of a businessman said to have played a “key role” in the scandal.