Gladiator’s ‘Tesco bag full of steroids’
Shamed icon’s haul found in 2018 raid
DISGRACED Gladiators star Mike Ahearne was caught with shopping bags full of steroids and CS spray canisters in his home, a court heard.
The 59-year-old was a huge star as Warrior in the 1990s Saturday night ITV hit, viewed by 14 million at its peak.
But he was jailed in 1998 over links to a police corruption scandal.
Liverpool magistrates yesterday heard police raided the former bodybuilder’s home in Oxton, Wirral, in January 2018.
They found anabolic steroids in a Tesco bag, another carrier bag and two boxes. Ahearne was held on suspicion of possessing the Class C drugs with intent to supply but no charges were brought.
He was charged over the CS spray and admitted possessing a weapon “designed or adapted for the discharge of a noxious
liquid”. Ahearne got six months, suspended for 12 months, in October 2018. Merseyside Police yesterday applied for the steroids to be destroyed under the The Police Property Act 1897.
Ahearne was not required to attend, having indicated he did not wish for the property to be returned. District Judge Jim Clark made a destruction order.
Ahearne earned up to £100,000 a year on Gladiators before his fall from grace. He was arrested in March 1997, linked to a plot to foil the prosecution of Philip Glennon Jnr for attempted murder. Glennon Jnr was accused of firing a gun at a bouncer and a police officer at a Liverpool club in 1996. His brotherin-law, drugs baron Curtis Warren, tried to foil the probe by paying corrupt officer DCI Elmore Davies £10,000 for details on the case. Ahearne was pals with Davies and passed on money from Warren. He was convicted of an act with tendency to pervert justice and got 15 months. Ahearne was freed after six months and in 2004 he opened golf bar On The Green in New Brighton, then ran Mike Ahearne’s Pro Gym in Birkenhead.