From the Arsenal Purchase to Drug smuggler

As a footballer, Jay Emmanuel-Tomas seemed to be predetermined. But the persuasion of drug control has left his career and reputation in Tatters. How did everything unfold so sharply for the player who once leaned toward the top?

Emmanuel Tomas was marked by the legendary leader Arsenal Arsena Hungarian as a footballer who could “play anywhere”, Emmanuel-Tomas was marked as an elite potential.

Admitting, technically gifted and surprisingly nimble, the attacker seemed to have the world at his feet.

But a career, which promised so much arsenal, fell and saw him spending years, laying between the second and third level of English football.

In 2020, he moved to play Scotland and continued to trade north of the border when he was arrested at his home in Gurak on September 18, near Glasgow.

Sixteen days earlier, border guards stopped two women at London Stanted Airport and found drugs in their cases.

It was not a minor transportation; They looked at the cannabis with a street value of 600,000 pounds.

How did it get? The evidence soon led the detectives to Emmanuel Tomas.

The wind is back for a decade, and everything was completely different.

It is May 26, 2009, and the last batch of talents of the arsenal academy practically cannot contain its excitement.

Young prospects, including Jack Wilhers and Francis Kakelin, just won the FA Youth Cup.

In particular, one player stood out: their 16-year-old Captain Emmanuel-Tomas, who killed in every round of the competition.

“These young people are really a very bright future,” said One commentator.

But despite making five performances of the first team, it was not quite for Emmanuel-Tomas.

It was sent to several credits before leaving North London Club for iPSwich.

It was a step that excited supporters in Saffolk, who sought to see what the former Arsenal -head could create.

However, after 71 matches and eight heads later, Emmanuel Tomas did not quite hoped that Mark’s supporters were hoping and he moved to Bristol City in a players’ exchange agreement.

Here he helped Robin to provide promotion to the championship and became something from the iconic hero, scoring 21 goals in the first season.

Then there was a move to Queens Park Rangers with the following loan spells to MK Dons and Gillingham.

But in 2019, Emmanuel Tomas accepted a transfer to the Thai team that would change his life.

It is believed to be tempted in the world world of the country, playing for PTT Rayong, the club that has developed the same year.

Despite the fact that he later moved to the Indian side and several Scottish outfits, including Azerdin, Emmanuel Tomas, never fishered from the criminal relations he made.

As long as he took a six -month contract in Greenock Morton, 40 minutes away from Glasgow, the game was almost higher.

As he lined up for them against the quince park On September 14, he certainly knew that the law was going to catch up.

The women arrested in Stanted were his 33-year-old girl Yasmin Petrovskaya, and her friend Rosie Roseland, 28.

Until then, Emanuel Thomas, so far, appeared in court, which was accused of orchestras attempted drug imports and was fired into his club.

Detectives found that he deceived Ms Petrovskaya from the Northwest London and Ms. Rowland, from Chelmsford, on a trip to Thailand with a promise of £ 2500 and a trip to all payments.

Their work? To bring home two suitcases filled with the fact that they were sure – this is gold, heard the court Chelmsford Crown.

They flew a business class from Bangkok, landing in Essex through Dubai.

Unknown to them, they smuggled in cannabis with a street value of 600,000 pounds, vacuum in four cases.

The couples were stopped and arrested by border staff before being charged with drug import offenses.

Couples in custody, and Emmanuel Tomas later detained, police analyzed how drugs reached the UK.

They soon discovered that the player was a mediator between Thailand and dealers in the UK, the National Agency for Crimes (NCA) reports.

With the encouragement of the footballer, the woman also made an almost identical trip in July, receiving similar promises of cash and a gorgeous holiday.

On the way to the care of Emanuel-Tomas, he even told NCA officers, “I’m just sorry for the girls.”

His The first court hearing in September He said he conducted “extensive research” on flights and instructions, including which women were going to airports.

David Philips, a senior NCA investigator, said “organized criminals such as Emmanuel Tomas” used beliefs and payment to make people do their dirty work.

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

During several speeches in court, Emmanuel Tomas, from Cardwal-Road, a hurk, tensely denied an attempt to import cannabis.

However he changed his guilt to the blame in early May and the reports of it were rose on Wednesday.

The accusations against Ms Petrovskaya and Ms. Rowland were dropped after the prosecution found them deceived by Emmanuel Tomas.

After that, it happened that David Jose called the Criminal Code “a very thorough investigation.”

At the last court hearing, Emmanuel Tomas appeared through a video link with HMP Chelmsford.

If he returns to the court for the sentence, the date will still be confirmed, it will not be the first time in the focus.

But it will be completely different reasons if he raised this trophy in 2009.