Businessmen who mixed horse meat with beef jailed for 10 years

Greedy fraudsters who tried to pass off 30 tonnes of cheap horsemeat as beef have been jailed for nearly 10 years.

Ulrik Nielson and Andronicos Sideras secretly mixed the cuts with beef and sold on 83,000kg to big companies to use in ready meals and pies across Britain and Europe.Their horsebeef scam was only discovered when a surprise inspection in 2013 found horse ID chips in batches labelled “100 per cent beef”.


Nielson, Sideras and a third man, Alex Beech, were sentenced together at Inner London Crown Court yesterday .