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Ex-West Ham player Kevin Nolan caught in Christmas hamper scam

Updated on: 21 July,2016 08:33 AM IST  | 
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Former Premier League footballer Kevin Nolan was an inadvertent "middle man" in a Christmas hamper con in which West Ham players and staff lost thousands of pounds, a court has heard

Ex-West Ham player Kevin Nolan caught in Christmas hamper scam

Kevin Nolan

Former Premier League footballer Kevin Nolan was an inadvertent "middle man" in a Christmas hamper con in which West Ham players and staff lost thousands of pounds, a court has heard.

Kevin Nolan
Kevin Nolan


The ex-West Ham midfielder told Snaresbrook Crown Court he had been passed the details of a hamper salesman called "Mark Kingston" by a nightclub manager friend of his. The 34-year-old paid £920 for two Harrods hampers and 25 bottles of champagne which he never received.



Stephen Ackerman, 48, is accused of defrauding potential new England manager Sam Allardyce and 12 other former and current West Ham players and staff, including England striker Andy Carroll, out of thousands of pounds by selling them hampers which were never delivered.

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