Couple plead guilty in Wendy's severed finger case

A woman who fraudulently claimed she found a human finger in her bowl of Wendy’s chilli in a scheme to extort money from the fast food chain could spend up to a decade in prison after pleading guilty to all charges.

Anna Ayala, 39, and her husband, Jaime Placencia, 43, pleaded guilty in Santa Clara County Superior Court, California, to charges of conspiracy to file a false claim and attempted grand theft from Wendy’s International, which claimed it lost 2.5 million dollars (£1.4 million) in sales because of bad publicity.