Crime
Ex-Liverpool footballer jailed 8 years for drug trafficking
Former Liverpool footballer, Layton Maxwell, has been jailed for eight years for being a courier and allowing a drug gang use his home as a safe house for storing cocaine.
According to Daily Mail, organised crime officers found drugs, cash and weighing equipment at his house and prosecutors said he was paid £500-a-month for his role as a ‘courier’ for gang bosses.
The 43-year-old who was arrested as part of a UK-wide investigation called Operation Venetic into organised crime which saw millions of pounds worth of drugs and cash seized was jailed for his role after admitting to supply the Class A drug, cocaine.
Judge Tracey Lloyd-Clarke, who jailed Maxwell, described the gang’s activity as a “dirty trade bringing misery to many.”
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