Officer convicted for selling drugs

2 April 2013 Last updated at 16:44 ET

A West Yorkshire Police detective has been found guilty of stealing seized drugs and conspiring with his brother to sell them, making at least 600,000.

Nicholas McFadden stole thousands of pounds of class A drugs from evidence stores, Leeds Crown Court heard.

He denied the two charges but pleaded guilty to money laundering.

His brother, Simon McFadden, 41, was found guilty of conspiring to supply. Simon's wife Karen McFadden pleaded guilty to money laundering.

After the verdict, Det Ch Insp Nick Wallen, of West Yorkshire Police, said McFadden "was, in fact, a criminal purporting to be a police officer".

"Some police officers, Nicholas McFadden's former colleagues, had risked their lives to take drugs off the streets, and he, along with his brother, was putting them back there," he said.

Nicholas McFadden, 38, of Church Avenue, Leeds, worked for a special organised crime group and was in charge of looking after evidence, the jury was told.

Leeds Crown Court heard the detective constable, who joined the force in 2000, helped himself to heroin, cocaine and cannabis by exploiting "slack" procedures at secret evidence stores.

When police raided his family home in Castleford they found almost 160,000 in banknotes stuffed into sacks in his garage, and 20,000 hidden around his house. They also discovered 6,000 in his performance car.

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