Hailed by Arsenal's legendary manager Arsene Wenger as a 'massive talent', Jay Emmanuel-Thomas once seemed to have the world at his feet.
So how did this football prodigy end up facing jail after being convicted of trying to smuggle £600,000 worth of drugs?
And what possibly could have persuaded the Londoner, who was still playing professional football during the plot, to risk everything to pursue a life of crime?
Wind back to 2010 and things were looking very different for Emmanuel-Thomas.
Aged 19, he had just made his Premier League debut for Arsenal against Chelsea, hot on the heels of captaining its youth team to the FA Youth Cup.
