Man City keeper Keating denies nitrous oxide possession charge

Manchester City and England goalkeeper Khiara Keating has pleaded not blameworthy to possessing cannisters of nitrous oxide.

The 20-year-old, of Manchester, was charged pinch possession of a people C supplier connected 18 June aft an investigation by Greater Manchester Police.

She appeared astatine Manchester and Salford Magistrates Court alongside her mother Nicola Keating, 48, who besides denied nan aforesaid offence.

Both were granted unconditional bail up of a further proceeding astatine nan aforesaid tribunal connected 10 September.

Nitrous oxide was made a people C supplier nether nan Misuse of Drugs Act successful November 2023.

Possession pinch nan volition of wrongfully inhaling it for a psychoactive effect became an offence, but it is still imaginable to usage nan state for morganatic reasons, specified arsenic successful catering aliases symptom alleviation during labour.

Jonathan Potter, prosecuting, said nan women were accused of possessing cannisters for wrongful inhalation successful Manchester successful June.

Keating was asked to bespeak a plea and replied "not guilty", arsenic did her mother.

The brace only said further to corroborate their names and addresses.

They were bailed up of nan September proceeding , wherever a territory judge is owed to hole a day for trial.

Keating, who was primitively connected nan books of Manchester United earlier being spotted by a City scout, became nan youngest subordinate to triumph nan Women's Super League Golden Glove grant successful May, aft keeping 9 cleanable sheets successful 22 convention games.

She has yet to make an quality for England, but was an unused substitute during nan caller Uefa Women's Championship Qualification games against Sweden and nan Republic of Ireland.