Detectives are investigating claims a juror was paid £20k to find owner of League One football club Fleetwood Town GUILTY of energy contract scam worth £15m… sending him down for 13 years!

• Fleetwood Town owner Andy Pilley was jailed for 13 years over a complex fraud
• Police have reopened their probe into claims a juror was bribed during the case
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Police have reopened their probe into claims a juror in the case of a football club owner who was jailed for 13 years was offered £20,000 to find him guilty.

Detectives in Lancashire are now investigating staggering allegations made by a whistleblower who sat on the trial of Fleetwood Town supremo Andy Pilley.

The juror told Mail Sport he was approached by two ‘thick-set’ men in a park while the case was ongoing and told there would be ‘consequences’ should he not accept the bribe, which they claimed others on the jury had already taken.

Pilley, 53, was eventually sent down for more than a decade after being found guilty of a multi-million pound fraud that duped firms into signing up for expensive energy contracts. The case began at Preston Crown Court last October.

The whistleblower said he was approached in March, with the case in its sixth month. After the alleged incident he fled abroad and was eventually excused from jury service.

Fleetwood Town owner Andy Pilley was jailed for 13 years over a complex fraud that tricked unsuspecting companies into signing energy contracts

Detectives in Lancashire are now investigating staggering allegations made by a whistleblower who sat on the trial of Fleetwood Town supremo Pilley (right) 

Following Pilley’s sentencing he approached police to report the allegations but claims he was told hours later that they would not be pursuing the matter.

After the revelations were published Pilley, who oversaw Fleetwood’s rise from non-league to League One, assembled a legal team.

Police said detectives would review the situation but later told local press that there would be no further action and that they had found no evidence of any criminal wrongdoing.

However, Mail Sport understands that after correspondence with Pilley’s legal team they have now decided to reopen the case and senior officers are investigating.

Lancashire Police have been contacted for comment.

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