A professional footballer has admitted orchestrating the smuggling of ÂŁ600,000 worth of cannabis to the UK, following a National Crime Agency investigation.
Jay Emmanuel Thomas, 34, recruited two women to travel to Thailand where the cannabis was collected and smuggled to the UK.
On 2 September 2024, Thomasâs girlfriend Yasmin Piotrowska, 33, and her friend Rosie Rowland, 29, were stopped by Border Force officers at Stansted Airport after landing on a flight from Bangkok.
They had two suitcases each, which were searched, and a total of 60kg of cannabis â 15kg in each bag â was recovered.
Piotrowska, of Kensal Green, London, and Rowland, of Chelmsford, Essex, were charged with smuggling cannabis.
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