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Ex-Liverpool footballer jailed for eight years over drug dealer's £6m cocaine racket
Liverpool footballer has been jailed for eight years over his connections to a drug dealer's £6million cocaine racket.Retired Welsh midfielder Layton Maxwell made just one appearance for the Reds after coming through the club's academy, scoring against Hull City back in September 1999. As he fell down the football pyramid after leaving Liverpool, Maxwell later joined a cocaine gang, with a court hearing that he allowed them to use his home as a safehouse.There, the gang stored drugs in a £6million racket, where organised crime agents found more than 60 kilos of cocaine, crack cocaine and heroin.READ MORE: Liverpool star Diogo Jota to miss World Cup as Jurgen Klopp confirms 'sad news'Officers also discovered £2.5million in cash and weighing equipment after carrying out a raid at Maxwell's Cardiff home.