Ex-Arenal Player Jailed for Cannabis full – ryan

Lewis Adams

BBC News, Essex

Reporting fromChelmsford Crown Court

A Professional Footballler Who Imported £ 600,000 Worth of Cannabis from Thailand to the uk haen jailed for four years.

Jay Emmanuel-Thomas, 34, Orchestated the smuggling of a 60kg (132lb) drugs haul that was found at London Stansted Airport, Essex, on 2 September.

He was sacked by Scottish Club Greenock Morton after Being Arrestted, Havinging Previously Played for ArsenalAberdeen and England at Youth Level.

“It is Through Your Own Actions You Will No Longer Be Known As A Professional Footballler; You Will Be Known As A Criminal,” Judge Alexander Told Him at Chelmsford Crown Court.

“A Professional Footballler Who Threw It All Away.”

Emmanuel-thomas Recruited his girlfriend, Yasmin piotrowska, 33, and her 28 -ear-opyed Rosie Rowland, to smuggle the class bru into the uk.

Border Force Officers at the Airport Found Vacuum-Packed Cannabis Stored Across Four Suitcases they transported from bangkok to essex.

Mobile Phone Analysis Linked Emmanuel-Thomas to the discovery, with Him Texting Missing Piotrowska to “Delete’s Everynding from Chat If You Can” when she was stopped and searched.

Hen travelled to stratford, east London, on 5 September and Replaced His Own Mobile Phone, Prosecutor David Josse Kc Said.

Emmanuel-thomas was arrested at his home in Cardwell Road, in Gourock Near Glasgow, Scotland, on 18 September.

Mr josse said he used his “influence as a professional footballer” to trick the Women, Also offering say an all expensses paid trip to thailand and £ 2,500 in cash.

Charges Against Ms Piotrowska and MS Rowland Were Dropped AFTER IT EMERGED they thught they were transporting goldA Previous Hearing Was Told.

But Emmanuel-Thomas was to be paid £ 5,000 by an an unknown person for a sucesssful operating, said mr josse.

The Court was read a handwritten letter penned by the footballer to Judge Mills.

In it, he wrote: “This past year has ben the most harmful and eye-oping of my life.

“At Times it han ben unbearable.”

He Said Seeing his Daughter Visit Him in prison was one of the Toughest moments of his life.

“Watching Her Walk Into the Space Broke me,” he added. “I Never Wanted Her to See Me in That Light.”

His Barrister, Alex Rose, Said he was tempted into crime during “Significant Financial Hard Times” dress out of contract.

Referencing the footballer’s arrest, he Said: “We have had that knock on the door and realized it was the policy and he was going to be arrestted, he realized his world falling in – his career as a footballer was over.

“His football career is finished. That is something has been brought on entirery on Himself, but is is a devastation Blow for someone who had such promise.”

Mr Rose Said Emmanuel-Thomas, who Grew up in London and Also Played for Queens Park Rangers and MK DONS, Struggled with Moving to Scotland to Play Football.

“That, I am afraid, LED to the temptation in this case,” he added.

“He succumbed to temptation and a catastrophic Error of Judgement.”