Former Liverpool football prodigy jailed for part in 356kg cocaine deal

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Former Liverpool football prodigy jailed for part in 356kg cocaine deal
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He once played alongside stars Jamie Carragher and Michael Owen, but later turned to the drug business.

Jamie Cassidy, 46, was ‘drawn in’ to crime after his promising football career ended shortly A former football prodigy who once played alongside stars Jamie Carragher and Michael Owen has been jailed for participating in a multimillion-pound drugs conspiracy. Jamie Cassidy, now 46, helped Liverpool win the FA Youth Cup against West Ham in 1996, facing Rio Ferdinand and Frank Lampard on the pitch.

The trio dealt 356kg of cocaine, worth around £26 million, with £10 million in cash changing hands in the space of three months. The cargo imported from Holland supplied the north-west England, Birmingham and Leeds. The three had been held in custody since 2020, law enforcement agencies busted their encrypted phone system called EncroChat and they were arrested.

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