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Ex-Liverpool star Layton Maxwell, 43, is jailed for eight years after quitting football to earn £500-a-month as a 'courier' for cocaine gang who used his home to store drugs in £6m racket

A former Liverpool footballer-turned-cocaine dealer has been jailed for eight years after he became a cocaine dealer after quitting the professional game.

Midfielder Layton Maxwell was just 19 when he scored on his debut at Anfield after coming through the ranks with England stars Steven Gerrard and Jamie Carragher.

But his career never took off - and he joined a cocaine crime gang as he slipped down the leagues.

A court heard Maxwell, now 43, allowed a multi-million pound drugs gang to use his home in Cardiff as a safehouse for storing drugs in a £6m racket.