A FORMER Southend United football player has been jailed along with other ringleaders of a gang that smuggled cocaine across Essex. Stuart Thurgood was one of eight ringleaders of an organised crime group in Essex which supplied drugs to county lines gangs have been jailed for a combined total of more than 40 years. The 39-year-old of Morley Grove, Harlow, served as the right hand man of the gang s leader. He played for Southend United between 2001 and 2003, with various stints at Grays Athletic and East Thurrock United.
Stuart Thurgood Thurgood was under the command of Christopher Golding, who headed up the network, which smuggled cocaine in containers through ports before selling it on to gangs supplying west Essex, Hertfordshire, London and Suffolk.
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