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Missing British athletics coach Leon Baptiste in Marrakech prison

The Guardian Australia - Sport ·
Missing British athletics coach Leon Baptiste in Marrakech prison

Coach had not been heard from in two months Baptiste serving a custodial sentence in Morocco Leon Baptiste, the British Athletics coach who had not been heard from since visiting Morocco around two months ago, is being held in prison in Marrakech, it has emerged.

Baptiste, 41, who coaches a number of elite athletes, is believed to have gone to Morocco for the weekend with friends.

As of last weekend he had not been heard from since by his athletes or the UK Athletics officials who pay him as a Loughborough-based consultant, with messages to his phone not returned.

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