Inside the downfall of pro boxer who was caught with £35,000 of cocaine after falling into life of crime | The Sun
A PROFESSIONAL boxer who was caught in his car with £35,000 worth of cocaine has been jailed for two years.
Welterweight Jack Ewbank was stopped by cops as he drove through Folkestone, Kent, with four bags of the class A drug.
Police searching the 33-year-old's home discovered a further 340g of cocaine divided into 12 packages – totalling up to £34,700.
Officers also discovered a phone with 36,000 messages that were "indicative of drug supply".
Ewbank has now been jailed for two years and five months after he pleaded guilty to being concerned in the supply of cocaine and possessing criminal property.
The boxer, who has won four of his nine professional fights, claimed he was a "one-man band" dealing small amounts to customers.
But Judge Simon Taylor KC said it made little difference whether Ewbank "had his fingers in two pies or his pie was a little bit bigger".
Canterbury Crown Court heard Ewbank was pulled over by police acting on "intelligence" on August 21, 2021.
The boxing gym owner has since turned his life around through cognitive behavioural therapy.
In a letter he wrote to his sister, Ewbank said he was "ashamed, disappointed and suicidal".
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He also described the decision to sell drugs as "the biggest mistake of his life".
Sentencing, Judge Taylor said: "That is one of the tragedies – that no doubt the man who stands before me today is very different to the man committing the offence of drug supply.
"The delay in this case gave you the opportunity to prove you wanted to put your offending behind you, and you have."
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