Ex-Bristol City footballer jailed over £600,000 drug smuggling plot

Former Bristol City footballer Jay Emmanuel-Thomas has been jailed for four years for his involvement in a £600,000 drug smuggling plot after a court heard his financial difficulties after a period out of contract led to a "catastrophic error of judgment".

Emmanuel-Thomas was arrested after officers from the National Crime Agency seized an estimated £600,000 of cannabis as it was being brought through Stansted Airport by two women he had recruited – his girlfriend and her friend.

An earlier hearing at Chelmsford Crown Court in Essex was told the women believed they were importing gold.

But Border Force officers detected roughly 60kg (132lb) of the drug in two suitcases, which had arrived in the UK from Bangkok, Thailan

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