The former club of a Clapham footballer jailed for his part in a bungled armed robbery that left a dad dead has been ordered to pay him £14,000.

The Football Assocation has ordered Ashley Sestanovich's former club Grays Athletic to pay him the money for the five months' between when they terminated his contract and when he was jailed.

Sestanovich, 25, a former Sheffield United player and body double for Arsenal star Thierry Henry in a sportswear advertisement, was convicted of conspiracy to rob after helping plan the payroll robbery at a Streatham roofing firm in June 2005 that ended in the shooting of dad-of-one Thomas Fahey.

Damien Ennis, 26, and Hallroy Reid, 40, were convicted of the murder of Mr Fahey, 42, who was shot in the stomach during the raid on his family's roofing business on June 24, 2005.

Mr Fahey had been paying a surprise visit to see his brother at the firm in Streatham when the two armed robbers burst in.

The court was told the pair had expected to find the company's payroll after receiving inside knowledge from Sestanovich, from Clapham, that most of the firm's workers were due to be paid their wages that day in cash.

Instead of the money and business boss Laurence Fahey, the pair found his brother Thomas, who was showing photographs of his newborn daughter to three of his brother's colleagues.

Thomas Fahey chased the pair outside in to the building yard where Reid turned and shot him in the stomach.

Mr Fahey was taken to St George's Hospital, Tooting, before being transferred to Kings College where he died seven months later on January 30, 2006.

Sestanovich was jailed for eight years.

Grays Athletic FC terminated Ashley Sestanovich's contract before his conviction for conspiracy to rob.

The FA has now given the south Essex club 14 days to pay the money or be suspended from all football.

Sestanovich played one pre-season friendly for the club before his arrest.

Grays chairman Mike Woodward said the player originally told them he was being held on remand for motoring offences.

When Grays found out about the robbery charges they served him with 14 days' notice.

Mr Woodward said the club was being forced to pay £14,000 to a player who only had three training sessions and 20 minutes in a pre-season friendly before being charged with a "heinous crime".

He said the club would not be paying the money.