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Hoard of seized drugs found at

police inspector Keith Boots's
home in Eccleshill, Bradford,
court told

Police at Keith Boots' home in Eccleshill, Bradford

7 hrs ago / Michael Black

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A POLICE inspector with responsibility for disposing of seized drugs was

found with hundreds of thousands of pounds of cocaine, crack cocaine,
heroin, ecstasy and cannabis in his home, a jury has heard.
Keith Boots, 55, who had been a West Yorkshire Police oicer for more than
20 years, stole drugs from police stores to supply others, Leeds Crown Court
was told.
Prosecutor Paul Greaney QC said: "He was stealing and storing drugs so that
they could then be supplied unlawfully to others.

"In other words, the Boots operation did not just involve the the of drugs
that had been removed from the streets by the police, it also involved
putting them back on to those same streets and the person principally
responsible was Keith Boots, a police inspector."
Mr Greaney said the large store of drugs was found when colleagues raided
Boots'home in Norman Lane, Eccleshill, Bradford, smashing down the door
in December 2014.
The drugs were in dierent places, including his washing machine, and
ammunition was also found, the court heard.
The prosecutor said: "The drugs found within the property included cocaine,
crack cocaine, heroin, ecstasy and cannabis in both its resin and skunk
forms.

thousand pounds.
"What made it exceptional, indeed unique, was that Keith Boots, the owner
of the house and the man who had been there when oicers arrived, was
one of their own, a serving oicer with West Yorkshire Police.
"What had happened that night was that oicers had found a warehouse of
controlled drugs in the home of one of their own inspectors.
"What Keith Boots had been doing is as simple as it is wicked. In a gross
breach of trust, he had been exploiting weaknesses in the system for the
destruction of controlled drugs in order to steal them."
Mr Greaney said that in December 2014 Boots was stationed at Trafalgar
House police station in the centre of Bradford.

He said the raid on Boots'home happened aer a colleague noticed a

quantity of cocaine missing from the station store.
Mr Greaney said Boots had become "nothing more than a criminal".
Boots went on trial on Wednesday with his son Ashley Boots and a third
defendant, Ian Mitchell.
Mr Greaney said Mitchell, who was wanted for recall to prison, "strolled" into
a Leeds police station and said it was him who had hidden the drugs found
at Norman Lane on behalf of a unnamed dealer.
The prosecutor said Mitchell claimed his "friend" Keith Boots was
"blameless".
Mr Greaney told the jury: "But all of this was lies and nonsense and his tale
quickly unravelled."
Keith Boots denies four counts of the, six counts of possession of controlled
drugs with intent to supply, one count of possessing ammunition, three

steal and one count of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.

Ashley Boots, 29, of Weatherhouse Terrace, Halifax, denies six counts of
possession of controlled drugs with intent to supply, one count of possessing
ammunition, three counts of conspiracy to supply controlled drugs, one
count of conspiracy to steal and one count of conspiracy to pervert the
course of justice.
Ian Mitchell, 27, of no fixed address, denies one count of conspiracy to
pervert the course of justice.
The trial continues.
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