A former footballer has been recalled to prison.
Leon Jeanne, 44, played for a number of clubs including Queens Park Rangers and Cardiff City, breaking into the QPR first team in 1998.
South Wales Police issued a brief appeal on its Facebook page saying he is wanted back in prison.
It said: “Leon Jeanne, age 44, from Cardiff. Recalled to prison. Give reference 2500002271.”
Former England international Peter Crouch once named Jeanne among the players who didn’t make it to the level he expected.
He told the Daily Mail in 2020 that Jeanne “looked like he could go far but it never happened”.
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In 2015, Jeanne was one of six men convicted of conspiring to supply cocaine, heroin and cannabis, and sentenced to 30 months in prison.
Police said a gang of six men plotted to bring hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of drugs into Gloucestershire from London, Cardiff and Birmingham, the BBC reported at the time.
Jeanne’s son, Rafel, was one of three people who died in a car crash in Cardiff in March 2023.
Jeanne’s stint in prison on drug offences was not his last run-in with the law, and he has also faced convictions including dangerous driving and threatening behaviour, Wales Online reported.
Police did not specify why he has now been recalled to prison.
