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Suspicious wife sparks bomb scare
Suspicious wife bomb scare Diletta Bianchini, a specialist oncologist at Royal Marsden Hospital, Surrey, got private investigators to fit the GPS tracker to William Sachiti Lexus SC430.
Mr Sachiti, an entrepreneur who appeared on Dragon’s Den in 2009, found the device and thought it was a bomb.
He went straight to the nearest police station. Officers evacuated the High Street in Sutton, South London and threw a cordon around his car on Sunday afternoon.
The police bomb squad were scrambled, emergency services put on high alert, and residents told to stay away from the cordons for their own safety in the incident.
Police discovered Dr Bianchini, 35, from Banstead, Surrey, had arranged to have a private investigator track her husband after she had become suspicious of his behaviour.
The flashing device, the size of a cigarette box, was fixed with magnets onto the fuel tank of Mr Sachiti’s car. It was identified as a GPS tracker and the bomb search was called off.
Dr Bianchini, 35, said: ‘I’m just so sorry it happened. It was a huge mistake and I was out of my mind.’
The device was fitted to entrepreneur Mr Sachiti’s Lexus SC430, pictured
Mr Sachiti thought the cigarette box-sized device was a bomb and went to a police station for help thereby sparking an emergency
Mr Sachiti said he had been concerned because some of his work involved security and anti-fraud work with banks. He feared it could be hackers pursuing him.
Mr Sachiti added: ‘When I first saw the device it was after I had my car washed. It was in Morrison’s car park.
‘At first I didn’t know what to do. I called a friend and they were concerned it could be something dangerous. So I went straight away to the police station.’
He added: ‘[It] was the wife who hired someone to follow me as she was concerned about my new ambiguous work hours.
‘She did not realise that they would put a device under my car and thought that they would only follow me and take pictures to confirm why whereabouts.
‘She may well have thought I’m having an affair but I’m not. My wife has always been that sort of person who has wanted to know where I am.’
His appearance on Dragon’s Den in 2009 was to ask for money to invest in his ‘Clever Bin’, a solar-powered street bin, complete with an alarm and GPS tracking, which he is aiming to sell to local authorities.
Dragon Peter Jones told him part of his proposal, which was rejected by the dragons, was ‘the biggest load of bull I’ve ever heard in the Den.’ Sachiti is a former salesman, stockbroker and advertising executive. He studied at the London School of Economics.
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