Ex-detective who stole £400k of seized cocaine in Manchester jailed for 19 years

Andrew Talbot took drugs from a Greater Manchester police evidence store and supplied them to criminals

A cocaine-addicted detective who stole drugs with a retail value of almost 400,000 from a police evidence store and supplied them to criminals has been jailed for 19 years.

Andrew Talbot, formerly a Greater Manchester police (GMP) detective constable, conspired with convicted drug dealer Keith Bretherton, 50, to sell the stolen cocaine, Liverpool crown court heard.