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Man jailed for blackmailing

AFP, London
A goalkeeper who blackmailed a top English Premier League footballer over a
sex video was jailed for 20 months on Friday.
Former Manchester City trainee Ashley Timms, 22, demanded 15,000 pounds (18,600 euros, 26,600 dollars) from the star, who cannot be named for legal reasons.
Timms made a senes of threats to publish the images if the player failed to pay him the cash.
The video clip showed the footballer and a 19-year old woman having sex at his home in September last year.
Timms pleaded guilty last month and was jailed on Friday at Manchester Crowm Court in northwest England after admitting making a series of demands and threats.
Sentencing Timms, Judge Andrew Gilbart said: "Blackmail always calls for a custodial sen-tence. The abuse of your friendship for simple greed is an aggravating feature.
"This was a calculated attempt to extract money for your own benefit.
"It is depressing that in a society where there is supposed to be more sexual freedom, some popular newspapers and magazines continue to dress their interest in it as some form of moral indignation when what they are actually doing is making money from their readers' interest in sex and salacious gossip."
Timms and the player, known only as witness A, had become friends and were part of a "fantasy world" of fast cars, money and girls.
It was "commonplace" for footballers to film each other haring sex with women, the court heard.
Prosecution lawyer David Friesner told the court Timms used a mobile phone to video the footballer haring intercourse.
But the two men drifted apart as Timms' football career "withered" because of his poor attitude and as Iris earnings plummeted he
dropped out of the high-spending world of top players, Friesner said.
Then "out of the blue" he contacted the Premier League player in March, telling Witness A he needed 15,000 pounds for a deposit to buy a house.
Timms told the player he could "buy" the sex footage and then destroy it Over a series of text messages, he told the player "I have got loads of pictures and the video of you.
"If you want them, make me an offer."
The player contacted officials at his club and a meeting was called at a hotel during which Timms said: “What's it worth? I want thou sands."
He also hinted he could “lose’ the phone in a taxi - and that the footage might end up on the YouTUbe video sharing website if it was not destroyed.
Witness A became so concerned that his performance on the field suffered. Police were eventually called in and Timms was arrested on April 4.