Former Premier League prodigy jailed for vicious knife attack on teenager

Former Premier League hopeful Causso Darame has been jailed for stabbing a teen with the ex-Swansea subordinate falling into a beingness of transgression aft his playing dreams ended

Ex-Premier League prodigy Causso Darame has been jailed for stabbing a teen with a Rambo knife.

The 25-year-old was erstwhile connected Swansea's books, joining the Welsh outfit erstwhile they were successful the Premier League, but has since fallen into a beingness of transgression pursuing the termination of his contract.

Darame near 19-year-old Ronnie Evans paralysed with "life-changing injuries" aft attacking him successful a "vicious" robbery. He stole the teen's cervix concatenation and bracelet and volition look 4 years and 4 months successful jailhouse aft helium admitted robbery and possession of a knife.

The incidental occurred successful the aboriginal hours of May 12 past twelvemonth adjacent Ken's Fried Chicken restaurant. Evans was with a person erstwhile helium clocked Darame, who had a ample Rambo-style hunting knife, Portsmouth Crown Court heard.

The tribunal was told that the brace began to tally erstwhile they clocked the ex-footballer was down them. Darame yelled aft them: "I’m going to drawback you, and erstwhile I drawback you, I’m going to termination you." Ronnie suffered a immense magnitude of humor nonaccomplishment aft 2 of his large nerves were severed.

Ronnie said successful a unfortunate connection that helium has been near with paralysis from the genu down - meaning helium cannot locomotion without a splint connected his foot. It means helium tin nary longer proceed his enactment arsenic an apprentice electrician and can't play tennis to the precocious level helium erstwhile did.

Prosecutor Paul Fairley said: "Luckily arsenic acold arsenic everyone successful the lawsuit was concerned, the weapon missed by a fewer millimetres the large humor vessels successful his leg."

The tribunal was told however Darame was fixed a younker declaration with Swansea astatine the property of 15. He erstwhile compared himself to Neymar and Cristiano Ronaldo and was past handed a two-year nonrecreational woody erstwhile helium turned 18 but was released successful 2018 by the Swans.

His lawyer Daniel Reilly admitted helium felt similar a nonaccomplishment erstwhile his declaration was terminated and began socialising with cause dealers arsenic helium "struggled to cope".

Judge Daniel Neill said Darame's actions had changed the beingness of a antheral "in the premier of his youth". He added: "You had hoped to go a nonrecreational footballer, it didn’t enactment out. Many dreams don’t enactment out, galore ambitions. By the clip that your nonrecreational shot declaration sponsorship came to an end, you had a spouse and a newborn kid you felt you were failing."

Darame was sentenced to 28 months successful situation aft constabulary recovered him with £1,000 worthy of heroin and cocaine successful August past year. At the time, the tribunal heard helium turned to drug-dealing to marque wealth due to the fact that helium refused to judge unemployment benefits.