From Sindong Arsenal to drug smugglers

As a soccer player, Jay Emmanuel-Thomas seemed to prefer great. But the conviction of drug smuggling twisted his career and reputation. How did the player once so dramatically solved?

Arsene Wenger, a legendary manager of Arsenal, is an “football player who can play anywhere” emmanuel-thomas has been shown early with elite potential.

Impressive and technically talented and surprisingly agile striker seemed to have a world on his feet.

But I saw a lot of promise in Arsenal and I saw that I was flying for several years between the second and third floors of British football.

In 2020 he played in Scotland and continued to trade north of the border when he was arrested at a house near Glasgow on September 18.

On the 16th, Border Force blocked two women at Stansted Airport in London and found drugs in the case.

It was not a minor transport. They were looking at cannabis in £ 600,000.

How did you arrive there? This evidence soon led the detectives to Emmanuel-Thomas.

The situation was very different for 10 and a half years and the situation was very different.

On May 26, 2009, Arsenal’s latest academy talent deployment can barely include excitement.

Young prospects, including Jack Wilshere and Francis Coquelin, have won the Fa Youth Cup.

In particular, one player was noticeable. The 16-year-old captain Emmanuel-Thomas scored in all rounds of competition.

One commentator said, “These young people have a very bright future.

But even though he continued his first team’s first team, it wasn’t for Emmanuel-Thomas.

He was delivered to several loans before leaving the North London Club with iPwich Town.

Surfuck’s excited supporters wanted to see what the former Arsenal Staret could produce.

But 71 games, eight goals, later Emmanuel-Thomas did not make what Mark fans expected and moved to Bristol City in the player exchange transaction.

Here he helped Robins to be promoted to the championship and became a cult hero with 21 goals in the first season.

The movement to Queens Park Rangers continued with MK DONS and Gillingham’s subsequent loans.

But in 2019, Emmanuel-Thomas accepted the transfer to the Thai base team that would change his life.

He is believed to have been tempted by the underground world of the country, playing in the club folded in the same year, PTT RAYONG.

Even though he later moved to India, some Scottish costumes, including Aberdin, never shook his crime.

When I signed a six -month contract from Greenock Morton, a 40 -minute drive from Glasgo, the game almost went up.

He lined up against Queens Park on September 14, and he would have clearly knew that the law would catch him.

The women arrested on Stansted were his 33 -year -old girlfriend Yasmin Piotrowska and her friend Rosie Rowland (28).

Until age 33, Emmanuel Thomas was accused of coordinating drug import attempts in court and was dismissed by his club.

Detectives found that he traveled to Thailand with a travel of £ 2,500 in cash in cash in Piotrowska and Chelmsford in northwestern London in cash.

Their job? The Chelmsford Crown Court was gold to bring two travel bags full of gold.

They flew the business class from Bangkok and landed in Dubai.

Unknown to them, they were smuggling with 600,000 pounds of cannabis and four vacuum packaging.

It was stopped and arrested by the border officer before being prosecuted for drug imported crimes.

As a pair was detained and Emmanuel-Thomas was later summoned, the police investigated how the drug was done in England.

According to the National Crime Agency (NCA), they soon found out that they were intermediates between Thai suppliers and British dealers.

With the encouragement of the football player, the women traveled almost the same in July and had a similar cash and luxurious vacation.

Emmanuel-Thomas also told NCA officers, “I feel sorry for the girls.”

The first court hearing in September heard that women have conducted a “extensive study” of flight and instructions, including airports where women are going to an airport.

David Philips, chief investigator of NCA, said that organizational criminals such as Emmanuel-Thomas, such as Emmanuel-Thomas, used persuasion and payment to make people do dirty work.

“But the risk of being caught is very high and it’s not just worth it,” he added.

In several courts, Emmanuel-Thomas in Gourock’s Cardwell Road refused to reject cannabis.

But he was convicted in early May and changed the limit of being released on Wednesday.

The suspicion of Piotrowska and Rowland was withdrawn after saying that the prosecution was deceived by Emmanuel-Thomas.

It was followed by David Josse KC as “very thorough investigation.”

Emmanuel-Thomas appeared in the latest court hearing on the video link of HMP CHELMSforD.

When he returned to the court for the sentence, it would not be the first to be noticed on the confirmed date.

But it would be a very different reason than when I heard the trophy in 2009.