Jamie Carragher has swerved bankruptcy after settling his tax debts with His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, drawing a line under a financial crisis that threatened to leave the Liverpool legend declared insolvent.
A representative of the authority confirmed at a hearing in London’s Insolvency and Companies Court that the outstanding amount had been paid. No figure was disclosed. Previous estimates had put the sum somewhere between £700,000 and £800,000.
Judge Nicholas Briggs had already thrown out the petition to declare Carragher bankrupt, filed last August, according to the British Broadcasting Corporation “BBC“.
Now 48, Carragher spent his entire professional career at Liverpool and played a part in the club’s Champions League triumph…