Shamed Johnson’s £2m move
MANSION IS BEING BUILT FOR RELEASE
Reporter SHAMED Adam Johnson is having a luxury £2m mansion built for when he gets out of prison.
The footballer is behind bars for sexual activity with a 15-year-old girl but is making plans for his release.
Builders are putting the finishing touches to a £2m seven-bed home complete with electric gates, cinema, swimming pool and bowling alley.
But his neighbours are already moving out, the Mirror reports.
His next-door neighbours have put their home on the market and dropped the price by more than £250,000 to £975,000.
Ex-Sunderland star Johnson bought the plot in 2010 before he was arrested, tried and jailed for sexual activity with a girl of 15.
Sister Faye, 24, has been overseeing the building work in County Durham and also helping estate agents sell his £1.7m home in nearby Castle Eden.
The lavish pad is set to go after knocking £200,000 off the price.
Johnson, held in Moorland jail, Doncaster, shared the house with his exgirlfriend Stacey Flounders, 27, who has since moved into another home with their daughter Ayla, two. The winger bought the house for £1.5m in 2012.
Johnson was found guilty in March 2016, a year after his arrest at Tollgate Lodge by Durham Constabulary.
He continued to play for Sunderland up to his trial, while on bail, earning around £3m in that time.
He admitted grooming and one count of sexual activity with a 15-yearold schoolgirl at Bradford Crown Court.
He was then convicted of another, more serious offence, of sexual activity with the girl, but was acquitted on a third charge of sexual activity.
He lost his appeal against length of sentence, and conviction, last month.
Johnson could be freed in two years.