Bale's girlfriend Dad on remand in US prison after being extradited over £3m fraud amd could face up to 30yrs if found guilty.

He may have become the world’s most expensive footballer, but Gareth Bale has by his side a devoted childhood sweetheart who shuns the high life.
Unfortunately, however, it seems her father may have rather less  modest tastes.
Martin Rhys-Jones, father of Bale’s girlfriend Emma, is on remand in an American jail accused of a global financial fraud.
Rhys-Jones, 49, was charged alongside 11 others in a New York court with  conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering.
He is accused of running a telemarketing scam from offices in Barcelona between 2006 and 2009 that duped victims into buying expensive shares that were almost worthless.
Rhys-Jones set up business in the Spanish city – where there is a ferocious footballing rivalry with Real Madrid, which has just signed Bale for £300,000 a week – in 2005 after separating from his wife, Suzanne, in Cardiff.
The father-of-five is accused of organising a series of ‘boiler room’ scams which involved cold-calling people in the UK and Canada to sell them low-value shares for high prices.

Bale and girlfriend