Former Stafford Rangers youth player jailed for ferrying drugs from Wolverhampton

Jordan Kasongo, aged 20, footballer Malachi Morgan, 19, and Seamus Williams, 20, all admitted possessing heroin and crack cocaine with intent to supply at Warwick Crown Court.

They were rumbled after Kasongo was spotted selling a Class A drug by a police officer in Stratford.

Prosecutor Thomas Edwards said that on September 7 last year, a police officer saw Kasongo speaking to a known drug-user.

He saw Kasongo at the same place again on September 17 and 18, so he alerted other officers to what he had seen.

The following day, they moved in and arrested Kasongo who discarded a ball of tissue paper in which they found a bag a drugs.

It was found that Kasongo and two others had booked into a guest house for three weeks from August 31.

Morgan and Williams later turned up at the guest house looking for Kasongo. As they walked away they discarded a white package. Police were alerted and after they were arrested nearby, the package was recovered, said Mr Edwards.

Officers found 55, £10 wraps of crack cocaine and 38 of heroin, while the package recovered when Kasongo was arrested had held 14 wraps of crack and 10 of heroin.

Morgan, of Sidwick Crescent, Ettingshall and Williams, of Okement Drive, Wednesfield, Wolverhampton, were both locked up for three years and four months. Kasongo, of Dickens Road, Bushbury, Wolverhampton, was given the same sentence – but a consecutive 20-month term for a similar offence in Basildon, Essex, while on bail, taking his sentence to five years.