Keeper denies blackmail
Date published: 08 July 2008
A FORMER Oldham footballer has denied blackmailing a top Premier League player.
At a plea and case management hearing at Manchester Crown Court yesterday, goalkeeper Ashley Timms (22), of Middleton, pleaded not guilty to demanding £15,000 from the unnamed star.
He is charged with making an unwarranted demand for money from the player with menaces between March and April last year.
Timms was a triallist with Latics reserves in February, 2007, and has played for Mossley and Curzon Ashton.
Judge Andrew Gilbart QC set a trial date for August 11 and upheld a previous ruling by magistrates that the Premier League player could not be named.
Timms was granted an extension of his bail and ordered to report to a police station twice a week. He was also ordered not to have contact with a prosecution witness.
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