Jay Emmanuel-Thomas, ex-professional footballer, received a four-year prison sentence for orchestrating a cannabis smuggling operation from Thailand, involving a haul worth £600,000. The drugs were discovered at London Stansted Airport. Emmanuel-Thomas, 34, was linked to the crime through mobile phone evidence, including texts instructing his accomplice to delete chats. He misled two women, offering them a Thailand trip under false pretenses. The judge criticized his choices, stating he forfeited his career to become a criminal.
It is through your own actions you will no longer be known as a professional footballer; you will be known as a criminal, Judge Alexander Mills told him.
Emmanuel-Thomas used his influence as a professional footballer to trick the women, also offering them an all expenses paid trip to Thailand.
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