Leon Reid sees himself as a victim of naivety and breach of trust. It's a story the Irish Olympic springer hopes others - particularly in sport - can learn from to avoid making the same mistakes.
The first lockdown prevented him from continuing training in South Africa. So he was back in England, returning to a flat in Bristol that he was subletting to a friend.The first he knew about it was when the police arrived, he insists.
"It's obviously really upsetting," Reid says by the beach in Worthing."It's been everything I've tried to get away from my whole life and getting put back into that sort of that circle, it was just nothing that I had ever dreamed that I'd ever be involved in, ever."While awaiting trial, he was still able to go to the Olympics - after appealing against an Irish deselection decision - and made the 200m semi-finals in Tokyo in 2021.
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