Former Napoli star, 23, jailed after being found guilty of taking part in armed carjacking

FORMER Napoli starlet Nathaniel Amoah has been sent to prison – after being found guilty of taking part in an armed carjacking.

The Dutch defender, 23, spent the 2020-21 season with the current Italian league leaders.

He rubbed shoulders with ex-Chelsea ace Kalidou Koulibaly and Belgium star Dries Mertens at the Serie A club.

Amsterdam-born Amoah went on to play for Norwegian club Egersund, plus Belgian sides Patro Eisden and Tongeren.

But a court in the Belgian city Kortrijk handed the right-back a two-year prison sentence on Monday morning.

Amoah was also fined £2,800 for his part in stealing a hired Mercedes from a motorist last July.

His accomplice, named only as Yasser A., received identical punishments.  The 28-year-old is also a Dutch citizen.

Prosecutors told the trial: “A man wearing a balaclava threatened to use a weapon in order to force the driver to hand over the keys of his rented car.”

The incident took place at an Esso petrol station at Marke, near Kortrijk in western Belgium.

The stolen car war discovered at nearby Wevelgem an hour later, and the two men were arrested later that day.

The trial heard Amoah and Yasser were found with five mobile phones, the balaclava and the clothing seen in security camera footage of the robbery.

Amoah’s lawyer Gregory Everaert claimed: “The CCTV images showed that he was walking round the parking area, but he did not approach the [victim’s] car.”

Amoah has previous convictions for theft in the Netherlands.  He has been without a club since leaving Patro Eisden two summers ago.