Photo-- Man Jailed For Threatening England Star ''Ross Barkley''

 

                          A notorious gangster who threatened to end the football career of England starlet Ross Barkley was jailed after being caught with counterfeit cash.

Convicted drug dealer Sam Walker sent the Tweet to the Everton midfielder as part of a supposed dispute over a girl both men had dated, the Mirror exclusively revealed in April.

Mirror reports that the 20-year-old Premier League footballer was visited by Merseyside Police but declined to make a complaint about the message, which read: “Inbox me a number for you, ya little rat!

“You know what this is about so don’t act stupid or your footie career will come to an end!”

Now, Walker has been jailed for 14 months after cops discovered he had £420 in counterfeit notes and 10 ecstasy pills when they chased him in December 2012.

In August, he had his jail term extended after admitting sending a threatening voicemail message to a police officer.

The gangster, from Liverpool, had been serving half of a sentence of four years and eight months for being part of a mob jailed for over 30 years for peddling heroin and crack cocaine.

He was among a gang, secretly tailed by an Operation Strikeout police surveillance probe, which could have earned up to £2,500 a day from selling drugs.

The operation, led by Cheshire Police, resulted in the seizure of more than £12million worth of drugs along with luxury cars, bundles of cash and jewellery from gang members.

In 2008, pictures of Walker in prison emerged, seemingly smoking a spliff, were revealed by Trinity Mirror.

Despite being behind bars, Walker was registered on social networking site Flirtomatic and boasted about his sexual conquests.

Other images in his online album showed bare-chested lags flexing their muscles, posing in a jail corridor and doing sit-ups.

Walker and Barkley had ‘discussions’ in high-profile Liverpool nightclub Playground, sources said, a popular WAG hangout frequented by Strictly Come Dancing winner Abbey Clancy, Alex Gerrard, wife of England skipper Steven and Danielle O’Hara, wife of footballer Jamie, who plays for Wolves.