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<img src="https://www.420magazine.com/gallery/data/1073/user00315.gif" align=left>A FORMER jockey who once rode for the Queen has been sentenced to five years' imprisonment in Spain for drugs offences.
Joey Brown, 44, was arrested in Newmarket in April on a European arrest warrant for Spanish police and taken to London where he appeared at Westminster Magistrates Court and consented to extradition.
A former top apprentice who rode for the Queen when he was apprenticed to trainer Ian Balding, Brown had been training at Mijas racecourse in Spain before returning to Newmarket where he had been working for Newmarket trainer Willie Musson.
He was wanted by the Spanish authorities following the seizure of 720 kilos of cannabis with an estimated street value of £2 million at a warehouse Brown had used in Fuengirola.
Brown, who has always strenuously denied knowledge of the drugs, went to court in Malaga at the end of last month to face the charges and on Friday was jailed for five years.
He is planning to appeal.
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<img src="https://www.420magazine.com/gallery/data/1073/user00315.gif" align=left>A FORMER jockey who once rode for the Queen has been sentenced to five years' imprisonment in Spain for drugs offences.
Joey Brown, 44, was arrested in Newmarket in April on a European arrest warrant for Spanish police and taken to London where he appeared at Westminster Magistrates Court and consented to extradition.
A former top apprentice who rode for the Queen when he was apprenticed to trainer Ian Balding, Brown had been training at Mijas racecourse in Spain before returning to Newmarket where he had been working for Newmarket trainer Willie Musson.
He was wanted by the Spanish authorities following the seizure of 720 kilos of cannabis with an estimated street value of £2 million at a warehouse Brown had used in Fuengirola.
Brown, who has always strenuously denied knowledge of the drugs, went to court in Malaga at the end of last month to face the charges and on Friday was jailed for five years.
He is planning to appeal.
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