Liverpool star’s father gets 4 years for drug dealing

THE father of Liverpool football star Jermaine Pennant was jailed for four years yesterday for drug dealing.

Gary Pennant, aged 44, was covertly filmed dealing crack cocaine and heroin to an undercover journalist, Nottingham Crown Court heard.

Pennant, of Nottingham, whose 25-year-old son Jermaine is a winger for Liverpool, earlier admitted one count of dealing crack cocaine and another of dealing heroin.