Former Liverpool footballer Layton Maxwell who joined a drugs gang after quitting the professional game, has been jailed for eight years.
But his career never took off, and he ended up turning to a life of crime as he slipped further down the leagues.
Now 43, he has been locked up after letting a crime group use his home in Cardiff as a safe house for storing drugs in a £6 million racket.He was one of eight defendants jailed for 80 years at Cardiff Crown Court – with more gang members yet to be sentenced. Maxwell was arrested as part of a UK-wide investigation called Operation Venetic into organised crime which saw millions of pounds worth of drugs and cash seized.
Layton Maxwell allowed a multi-million pound drugs gang to use his home in Cardiff as a safehouse for storing drugs More than 60 kilos of cocaine, crack cocaine and heroin with a street value of an estimated £6 million and £2,500,000 in cash were seized in police raids.Maxwell dreamed of the big time when he scored at the Kop end on his debut in 1999 but never played for the first team again.‘Not many players score at the Kop End on their Liverpool debut.
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