The supermarket joined Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury’s and Waitrose in refusing to stock products from the Kenyan farm. Morrisons is dropping Del Monte Kenya as a supplier of pineapple products until the company better protects human rights, the UK supermarket said.

A Morrisons spokesperson told the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ): “We are moving tinned pineapple sourcing out of Kenya until Del Monte’s human rights improvement plan has been fully implemented.” TBIJ confirmed that Morrisons and Iceland were still stocking pineapple products from Del Monte’s vast plantation in Thika, Kenya. It came a year after TBIJ and the Guardian first revealed numerous allegations of brutal beatings and killings at the hands of Del Monte’s security guards, and amid a fresh wave of violence.

The 80 sq km farm sits on the border of Murang’a and Kiambu counties, about 40 km northeast of Nairobi. Unemployment in the surrounding area is rife and many young men resort to stealing pineapples from the farm, prompting conflict with the farm’s guards...