Professional footballer Jay Emmanuel-Thomas has been sacked from Greenock Morton FC after he appeared in court charged with orchestrating the attempted importation of drugs.
The 33-year-old striker was arrested at his home in Gourock, near Glasgow, on Wednesday and taken to Carlisle for questioning.
The father-of-two did not enter a plea to the charge at Carlisle Magistrates court but his lawyer said he “strenuously” denied involvement in any plan to import drugs to the UK.
It comes after officers from the National Crime Agency (NCA) discovered 60kg of cannabis with an estimated value of £600,000 in suitcases arriving at Stansted Airport from Bangkok.
Read more about it at The BBC.
