Friday, January 31, 2025 - Police in the UK have launched a manhunt for a former star footballer turned drug dealer.
Leon Jeanne, 44, who played for Cardiff City and Queens Park
Rangers having started out at Arsenal, aged 10, has been recalled to
prison by South Wales Police but has not yet been found.
The police appeal said: "Leonne Jeanne. Age: 44. From
Cardiff. Recalled to Prison. Give reference 2500002271."
The former footy star was convicted of
dangerous driving in 2019 after being chased by police at 100mph on
the same road where his son was found dead.
He was later sent to prison for breaching a curfew.
Four years earlier, in 2015, he had been jailed for 30
months for his part in a plot to supply cocaine.
Leonne began his career with Queens Park
Rangers before joining his hometown team Cardiff City.
However, Jeanne suffered from drug
and alcohol addiction and was given a two-year suspended ban by
the Football Association of Wales after testing positive
for a class A drug.
Continued disciplinary problems eventually led to his
release from Cardiff.
In June 2011, Jeanne joined
then Championship side Brighton & Hove
Albion for pre-season training in a bid to earn a contract and
play football at a high level once more.
Jeanne started the 2011–12 season playing for Welsh Premier
League side Afan Lido but left before the start of the 2012–13 season to join
Carmarthen Town.
He would go on to play just six times more for Port Talbot
Town before his career sadly came to an end in 2015.
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