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| | Guardian | McAvennie cleared of drug deal conspiracy (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | The former Scottish international footballer Frank McAvennie was cleared yesterday of conspiring to deal in drugs worth £110,000. |
 | | Newcastle crown court had heard that in March McAvennie, 40, was seen by undercover national crime squad detectives in a car with a friend and an acquaintance travelling to a house in Newcastle upon Tyne, where the friend picked up the drugs. |
 | | McAvennie, of Gateshead, had pleaded not guilty to conspiring to supply amphetamines and to conspiring to supply ecstasy. |
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