内容摘要：His career at Plymouth Argyle FC, which he captained, was distinguished by his remarkable skills as a striker, scoring 137 goals in 401 appearances.

His career at Plymouth Argyle FC, which he captained, was distinguished by his remarkable skills as a striker, scoring 137 goals in 401 appearances.

All the evidence pointed to Syria being the main source of Captogan's illicit trade with an annual value placed at $5.6bn (£4.5bn) by the World Bank.At the scale that the pills were being produced and dispatched, the suspicion was that this was not simply the work of criminal gangs - but of an industry orchestrated by the regime itself.

Weeks on from the speech by al-Sharaa (previously known by his nom de guerre of Abu Mohammed al-Jolani), spectacular images have emerged that suggest the suspicion was correct.Videos filmed by Syrians raiding properties allegedly owned by relatives of Assad show rooms full of pills being made and packaged, hidden in fake industrial products.Other footage shows piles of pills found in what appears to be a Syrian military airbase, set on fire by the rebels.

I spent a year investigating Captagon for a BBC World Service documentary and saw how the drug became as popular among the wealthy youth of Gulf countries like Saudi Arabia as it was among the"I was 19 years old, I started taking Captagon and my life started to fall apart," Yasser, a young male addict in a rehab clinic told us in Jordan's capital, Amman. "I started hanging out with people who take this thing. You work, you live without food, so the body is a wreck."

So how will al-Sharaa and his group, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), deal with the large number of people in Syria and around the Middle East addicted to Captagon who may suddenly find themselves without a supply?

Caroline Rose, an expert on Syrian drug trafficking at the New Lines Institute, has concerns around this. "My fear is that they will really crack down on supply and not necessarily try to do any sort of demand reduction."The defendant has previously told Isleworth Crown Court that when she took the drugs she did not believe she was more than 10 weeks pregnant - the legal time limit for at-home terminations.

She denies unlawfully administering to herself a poison or other noxious thing with the intent to procure a miscarriage."I just felt really bad, I didn't know I was pregnant or that far along," Ms Packer said.

Breaking down in tears, she went on: "If I had known I was that far along I wouldn't have done it... I wouldn't have put the baby or myself through it."Ms Packer said that she wrapped the baby in a scarf, but there were no signs of her being alive. The jury previously heard that she took the baby to Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in a backpack the day after taking the medicine.