Ex-PC admits stealing cash and drugs

5 June 2013 Last updated at 12:56 ET

A former police officer who stole drugs and 205,000 in cash from an evidence store has been cleared of supplying cocaine to prostitutes.

Dean Burnett, 43, admitted stealing the items while working as a constable at Govan police station between 1 August 2010 and 25 January last year

He was cleared by a majority not proven verdict of supplying cocaine between January 2011 and January last year.

Sentence on Burnett, who is on remand, was deferred.

The High Court in Edinburgh heard that gambling addict Burnett was stealing narcotics and cash entrusted to him in the production room at Glasgow's Govan police station after it was seized by colleagues.

The university law graduate took drugs that were earmarked for destruction and stole money linked to 98 separate cases.

When he was caught, only 1,900 of the 205,279 he stole was recovered.

During the trial, the Crown accepted Burnett's guilty plea to stealing cash, cocaine, cannabis, heroin and other powders he believed to be drugs from the police station.

Burnett was cleared of supplying cocaine to escort girls and also found not guilty of being concerned in the supply of diazepam and offering to supply heroin.

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