Ex-Newcastle Player Jailed For Drug Dealing!
Last updated : 02 February 2008 By Footy Mad - Editor
One Newcastled coach once called him the "new Gazza", but his world crashed after he started taking drugs, and this week he was jailed for drug dealing.
Parry built up a £60 a day heroin habit and was sacked by the Premiership club for drug taking, Durham Crown Court heard.
Prosecutor Steven Orange said: "Police raided their home and found brown powder, later identified as heroin, £619 cash, tin foil and 19 burprenorphine tablets - a heroin substitute commonly used to cut heroin.
"In the space of a few months it has been calculated he spent more than £16,000 on heroin."
Stephen Contantine, defending, said in mitigation: "At 14 years of age he was an apprentice with Newcastle United and he had the world at his feet.
"It all went wrong when people around him started taking drugs and he decidedto follow them.
"Having played for his country against Sweden at under-16 level, he has fallen about as far as it is possible to fall in 10 years.
"He was injecting himself up to 10 times a day, but is determined to use his time in prison wisely and to rebuild his life when he is released."
The judge jailed Parry for three years.