Credit card con retrial for ex-Hammers winger

A former Premier League footballer who used a pensioner’s debit card to gamble £16,000 at a Playboy Casino faces a retrial in May. Blair Turgott, 23, who made a lone FA Cup appearance for West Ham, used 85-year-old Peter Dixon’s card to pay for chips worth £8,000 at the casino on Old Park Lane in Mayfair. The winger, who now plays for Boreham Wood FC in the Conference Premier League, then wagered the chips before leaving with £900 in profits…

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