AN ex-boxer who was unmasked as a drugs gang boss days before his first televised Arena fight is back in court after burgling a family home and stealing a van before ramming into a cop car.
Anthony Leak, 33, once a promising boxer, instead led a drugs gang which peddled heroin and cocaine worth almost three-quarters of a million pounds.
Leak and six other men were jailed for their involvement in the racket in 2018. Manchester Crown Court previously heard how between November 2016 and March 2017, police discovered more than four kilograms of cocaine and other class A drugs including heroin following four warrants.
The drugs seized had an estimated street value of £726,000 and officers also found a gun and ammunition.
Leak was arrested days before the event at the Manchester Arena, which was to be broadcast on BT Sport.
He told police he was too busy focusing on his boxing career to be involved in crime.
He was due to fight on the undercard before Ancoats boxer Terry Flanagan's fight against Petr Petrov at the Manchester Arena in 2017.
Leak was locked up for 11 years and four months, but in December 2022 he was released on licence.
Appearing to get his life back on track, he began working in construction.
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