A suspicious wife’s attempt to prove  her husband was having an affair backfired spectacularly when a tracking  device fitted to his car was mistaken for a bomb.
Diletta Bianchini had employed a private detective after her husband William Sachiti began working unusual hours.
Unbeknown  to her the investigator fixed a tracker, roughly the size of a  cigarette packet, to the petrol tank of Mr Sachiti’s £40,000 silver  Lexus using magnets.
And when the husband – a security consultant and entrepreneur – spotted the device flashing he feared the worst.
He  rushed to alert police, who blocked off a busy high street, evacuated a  coffee shop and scrambled the bomb squad, fire engines and ambulances.
Mr  Sachiti, who as an entrepreneur once appeared on BBC programme Dragons’  Den, said: ‘When I first saw the device it was after I had my car  washed. It was in Morrisons’ 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.’

Mr Sachiti said his work involved  security and anti-fraud consultancy work with banks and he feared it  could be computer hackers pursuing him.
The police threw a cordon around his car and blocked off the high street in Sutton, South London, while they investigated.
One  resident who was caught up in the evacuation of a nearby Caffe Nero,  said: ‘I was alarmed about what was happening. I was told to get off  that part of the high street and to stay away from the cordon for my own  safety.’
A police  spokesman confirmed a section of Carshalton Road in Sutton was cordoned  off on Sunday afternoon and the drama continued until officers were  informed the tracking device had been fitted, at which point the bomb  disposal squad, London Fire Brigade and London Ambulance Service were  stood down.
It turned out the device had been fitted to Mr Sachiti’s car at the couple’s home in Banstead, Surrey.
He said: ‘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 my 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.’
And his wife certainly appears to regret her suspicions.
Yesterday  Miss Bianchini, 35, an oncologist who works at Royal Marsden Hospital  in Sutton, was pictured in a local newspaper embracing her husband. 
She said: ‘I’m just so sorry it happened. It was a huge mistake and I was out of my mind.’
Mr  Sachiti appeared on Dragons’ Den two years ago to ask for money to  invest in his ‘Clever Bin’, a solar-powered street bin, complete with an  alarm and GPS tracking, which he was aiming to sell to local  authorities.
His  proposal was turned down for investment after Dragon Peter Jones  described it as ‘the biggest load of bull I’ve ever heard in the Den’.
 
 
 
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