Retrial for footie star

A former Premier League footballer who used a pensioner’s debit card to gamble £16,000 at a Playboy Casino is facing a retrial after claiming he had no idea it was stolen. 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. Turgott, who now plays for Boreham Wood FC in the Conference Premier League, then wagered the…

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