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		</div><p>A Premier League footballer was blackmailed after being filmed in a hotel room with a woman who was not his partner, a court in the U has heard.</p>
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<p>The player, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had previously met 28-year-old Natalie Wood on two occasions after sending her a message on social media.</p>
<p>Bristol Crown Court heard Wood hatched a plot to blackmail the sportsman with three men, including former Take Me Out contestant Tyrone Coleman, 34.</p>
<p>She arranged to meet the player in a hotel room last year, allegedly leaving a spare key card with co-defendants Nathan Coleman, 38, and Prince Rowe, 37.</p>
<p>A jury heard the men burst into the room, causing the football player – clad only in underwear – to jump out of a window and escape from a fire escape.</p>
<p>The man took shelter in a nearby restaurant until police arrived.</p>
<p>Simon Jones, prosecuting, told the jury: “The complainant is a well-known professional football player.</p>
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<p>“Last year, a plan was hatched to blackmail him, to expose him to the media if he didn’t pay money.</p>
<p>“The plan was thwarted by the complainant going to the police and the defendants being arrested.</p>
<p>“While no money was ever handed over, that doesn’t matter because this case concerns the existence of the plan.”</p>
<p>The court heard Wood met the player after he sent her a message on social media in 2017.</p>
<p>He sent her money to book a hotel room on three occasions, with Wood checking in under her name and providing him with the room number.</p>
<p>“The plan was for Prince Rowe and Nathan Coleman to burst into the room and then capture an incriminating image,” Mr Jones said.</p>
<p>Wood sat on the bed with the man, who took off his designer tracksuit and Rolex watch, before the two men entered the room a short time later.</p>
<p>“The complainant exited via the window in his underpants,” Mr Jones said.</p>
<p>“His partner received a message from him telling her to lock all the doors because he had been robbed.”</p>
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<p>At 10.20pm, the player received a text message from Wood’s phone telling him that he had been caught in the “wrong place at the wrong time”.</p>
<p>“Obviously from your reaction you knew you was in the wrong,” the message stated.</p>
<p>“I don’t really want to expose you to the media but if you don’t respond within 24 hours then you leave me no choice.”</p>
<p>Giving evidence to the jury via video link, the footballer said he had a partner but had been intimate with Wood.</p>
<p>He described her as acting “strangely” when they met for the third time in a hotel room last year.</p>
<p>“I was sat on the bed. At this point, I had my boxers on. She seemed really nervous,” he said.</p>
<p>“I had a funny feeling that something was wrong. Within minutes, the door opened and two guys walked in.</p>
<p>“It happened so quickly. I just saw a window to my right.</p>
<blockquote><p>I managed to get out of the window without thinking of how high up it was. I thought – I’m in a room and two guys walked in and I’m in a bad situation</p></blockquote>
<p>“I jumped out of the window and I managed to get hold of the staircase.”</p>
<p>The player said he ran to the restaurant, where staff recognised him and gave him clothing to wear as police arrived.</p>
<p>He told jurors he had been left “a bit panicky” by the incident and had told his partner about his contact with Wood.</p>
<p>Wood, who has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to blackmail, told the court she had become friends with Tyrone Coleman after he appeared on ITV’s show Take Me Out.</p>
<p>She claimed that after discussing her relationship with the footballer, Coleman arranged for her to meet Rowe and his brother Nathan Coleman.</p>
<p>“I had been used as bait because of the person I knew and they saw a way to get money,” she told the court.</p>
<p>“The plan that was put in place, that was Prince Rowe’s idea, was to get money from him.”</p>
<p>She added: “I’ve never been in trouble before.”</p>
<p>Nathan Coleman, of Sussex, denies conspiracy to blackmail and two counts of theft relating to the footballer’s watch and tracksuit.</p>
<p>His brother Tyrone Coleman, of Birmingham, denies conspiracy to blackmail.</p>
<p>Prince Rowe, of Birmingham, denies conspiracy to blackmail and two counts of theft.</p>
<p>Ras Robinson denies a charge of handling stolen goods relating to the watch and tracksuit.</p>
<p>The trial continues.</p>
<p><b>&#8211; Press Association</b></p>
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