Keeper faces prison for sex blackmail
A goalkeeper, who had a spell with Shrewsbury Town, is facing jail after today admitting using sex images to blackmail a Premiership footballer. A goalkeeper, who had a spell with Shrewsbury Town, is facing jail after today admitting using sex images to blackmail a Premiership footballer. Ex-Manchester City trainee Ashley Timms, 22, demanded £15,000 from the Premiership star, who cannot be named for legal reasons. Timms admitted making unwarranted demands, namely to publish images of a sexual nature, with menaces, when he appeared at Manchester Crown Court. Judge Andrew Gilbart warned him a prison sentence was inevitable. Timms, of Middleton, Greater Manchester, who briefly played for Shrewsbury Town in 2006, was bailed until September 5 for sentencing. The Manchester-born goalkeeper is currently without a club. He joined Cambridge City in January on non-contract terms but has since left. Read the full story in today's Shropshire Star
A goalkeeper, who had a spell with Shrewsbury Town, is facing jail after today admitting using sex images to blackmail a Premiership footballer.
Ex-Manchester City trainee Ashley Timms, 22, demanded £15,000 from the Premiership star, who cannot be named for legal reasons.
Timms admitted making unwarranted demands, namely to publish images of a sexual nature, with menaces, when he appeared at Manchester Crown Court.
Judge Andrew Gilbart warned him a prison sentence was inevitable.
Timms, of Middleton, Greater Manchester, who briefly played for Shrewsbury Town in 2006, was bailed until September 5 for sentencing.
The Manchester-born goalkeeper is currently without a club. He joined Cambridge City in January on non-contract terms but has since left.