Liverpool's FA Youth Cup-winning footballer was today sentenced to 13 years and three months in prison after admitting his role in a cocaine conspiracy involving a South American cartel.
Jamie Cassidy, 46, represented England at youth level before being called up by Terry Venables to first-team training ahead of the 1996 European Championship.
He was arrested along with his brother in 2020 after French intelligence services infiltrated the messaging service EncroChat.
In March and April of that year, Jonathan Cassidy, now 50, was found to have arranged the smuggling of 356kg of cocaine from the Netherlands to Liverpool.
The crop, which had a street value of £28m, was then distributed across the north of England by Jamie Cassidy, who was paid for a 'management' role in collection and delivery.
Jonathan was deemed a key figure in the operation and was sentenced to 21 years and nine months in prison, while his co-conspirator, Nasser Ahmed, 51, of Bury, who handled the funds, was also sentenced to 21 years and nine months. Ta.
Jamie Carragher suggested in his autobiography that his former team-mate in Liverpool's youth team “would have become a regular” had he not suffered two serious injuries in the first game.
After leaving Liverpool in 1999, he joined Cambridge United in English football's third tier, before briefly moving to the non-league system.
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