Millwall FC's Ex-Kids Coach Caged For Drugs Cache

An ex-Millwall Football Club schoolboys’ coach, who threw £12,000 worth of heroin and crack out his bedroom window during a police dawn raid, was jailed for five years and eight months today.

Operation Trident officers – who investigate violent black-on-black crime in the capital – were assisted by the Territorial Support Group and also seized £11,000 in drug-tainted cash.

Jobless Taurean Davis, 25, of Ardoch Road, Catford, South East London pleaded guilty to possessing 118 gms of heroin and 90 gms of crack cocaine, with intent to supply, at the address on January 20.

He also pleaded guilty to possessing a small quantity of cannabis and the proceeds of crime, namely £6,000 at the house, plus another £5,000 seized at his mother’s house in Ivydale Road, Nunhead.

Prosecutor Mr. Andrew Ramsubhag told Croydon Crown Court officers armed with a search warrant used an ‘enforcer’ to smash their way through the front door.

As they did a large black plastic bag was hurled out of an upstairs window, which contained 787 wraps of heroin and 450 wraps of cocaine.

In that bedroom police arrested Davis and found £6,000.

A simultaneous search warrant was executed at his mother’s address and there officers found £5,000 stuffed inside a pillowcase.

“Large trace amounts of heroin were found on both quantities of cash and on mobile telephones seized,” explained Mr. Ramsubhag.

“He was a football coach at Millwall Football Club coaching under elevens and had the relevant qualifications to do that,” said Mr. Khurram Arif, defending.

Davis, who has an eight year-old daughter and admits he was once a drug addict, was previously convicted of possessing 19 wraps of heroin and crack hidden inside his boxer shorts.

Judge Simon Pratt told Davis: “So often it happens that people start drug dealing as a result of drug taking and this is what seems to have happened in your case.

“This shows you to be a drug dealer in a significant way, this is a lot of heroin and cocaine in the various bags.

“You are a significant dealer in class A drugs, that is reflected by the significant amounts of money.”

Police forfeited the £11,000 cash and the drugs will be destroyed.

Davis received five years and eight months for the two drug supply charges, three years concurrent for possessing the proceeds of crime and three months concurrent for possessing cannabis.