Former Liverpool soccer prodigy admits drug smuggling conspiracy with brother
A former Liverpool soccer prodigy and cup winner has admitted to smuggling medicine and cash laundering together with his brother.
Jamie Cassidy, now 46, appeared within the FA Youth Cup profitable Liverpool workforce in 1996, and admitted to conspiracy to produce Class A medicine and conspiracy to launder cash.
Brother Jonathan Cassidy pleaded to conspiracy to evade the fraudulent prohibition on the importation of Class A medicine, conspiracy to produce Class A medicine and conspiracy to launder cash. Nasar Ahmed, 51, additionally admitted the identical offences as Jonathan Cassidy.
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The three had been due for trial at Manchester Crown Court however will now be sentenced subsequent month. A police infiltration of encrypted texting app EncroChat led to the arrest of Jamie.
He appeared in courtroom by way of video hyperlink from HMP Forest Bank in Salford as a decide assured the ex-footballer he would “not have much longer to wait” for his sentence, the Daily Mail reported. The trio had been remanded in custody for greater than three years.
Judge Nicholas Dean KC, Honorary Recorder of Manchester, instructed Jamie: “I’m quite sure that after more than three years in custody, your anxiety is to know the sentence that you face. You will not have much longer to wait for that to occur.”
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Jamie Cassidy, of Knowsley Lane, Knowsley, gained the FA Youth Cup with Liverpool alongside future membership legend Jamie Carragher and England legend Michael Owen. Pro-turned-pundit Carragher mentioned Jamie “would have been a certain Liverpool regular if he hadn’t suffered so much with injuries” in his 2008 autobiography.
Cassidy was launched from Liverpool with no first workforce look and later moved to Cambridge United. He then started taking part in for non-league groups.
The details of the case towards the Cassdy brothers and Ahmed haven’t but been disclosed to the courtroom. The trio pleaded responsible on the eve of the trial.
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