Drug dealing ex-Notts County player jailed after shooting himself in the leg

A drug dealer who shot himself in the leg and pretended he had fallen off his bike in a bid to evade justice, has been jailed. Watch more of our videos on Shots! and live on Freeview channel 276

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Former Notts County[2] footballer Romello Nangle called for an ambulance claiming he had been involved in a road accident and had a 'big hole in my leg' at around 3.40pm on 21 May 2022. He cancelled the ambulance a short time later saying he had got a lift to hospital.

Police later received a call from a nurse at the Queen's Medical Centre[3] saying a man had presented at A&E with shotgun pellets in his leg.

Romello Nangle was jailed for four-and-a-half years at Nottingham Crown Court.

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Nangle's story began to unravel when he claimed he had caught his leg on the exhaust pipe of a motorbike when falling off his bicycle. He then changed his story again to say he heard a loud bang before coming off the bike. Detectives were able to unpick his claims and disprove them using CCTV footage and telecommunications data when they analysed his mobile phone.

They were also able to prove his mother, Melanie Nangle, and accomplice, Harveer Narwal, had also conspired to cover up what had happened. Nangle, aged 28, of Hucknall Road, Nottingham, was jailed for a total of four-and-a-half years when he appeared at Nottingham Crown Court on November 22. He had earlier pleaded guilty to possession of a loaded shotgun in a public place, conspiring to pervert the course of justice and supplying a class B drug.