A “CUNNING and deceitful” police officer who stashed more than half a million pounds worth of drugs at his home has been ordered to pay back £135,000.

Keith Boots, 55, will have assets seized after he stashed enough narcotics at his home “to keep a 1970s rockstar and his band entertained’’.

Boots, along with his son Ashley Boots, 30, appeared in Leeds Crown Court yesterday via video link from Doncaster prison.

Boots had been jailed for 26 years on January 18 last year after he raided cocaine, crack cocaine, heroin, ecstasy and cannabis from West Yorkshire Police’s storeroom to supply to criminals for a hefty profit.

Boots had a £700,000 cache of drugs at his home in Eccleshill, Bradford, when it was raided by his own force.

During his nine week trial, the court heard Boots had even hidden a whopping 11kg of confiscated cocaine in his washing machine - so his son, Ashley Boots, could deal it back onto the streets.

Prosecutor Paul Greaney, QC, told the court at the time: “What was found on the ground floor of his home would have kept a 1970s rockstar, and his band, entertained for weeks.

“In the washing machine were over 11 kilograms of cocaine along with other drugs.

Today, Judge Penelope Belcher ordered the sum of £135,280.90, out of the total sum of £556,400, be confiscated with three months to pay.

However, the judge considered the submissions of Boots’ defence Mr Kelley, who explained the police hold a significant amount of the money in excess of £100,000.

Should Boots fail to pay, an additional 18 months imprisonment would be added to his sentence.

Ashley Boots was ordered to pay the sum of £1 with seven days to pay, with three months additional imprisonment if he fails to do so.

Keith Boots was jailed last year for his tactics to swipe drugs from Bradford Police Station, and get Ashley to sell them.

Ashley Boots, of Halifax, was jailed alongside his father for 24 years as West Yorkshire Police described the incident as “utter betrayal”.

Sentencing Keith Boots at the time, Judge Geoffrey Marson, QC, said: “Your offending is a betrayal of those honest officers who have worked diligently of the force. You are a disgrace to the uniform you once wore - I have never come across a case where the circumstantial evidence was so overwhelming.”

He added: “You used cunning, lying and deceitful tactics to use your son’s contacts in the drug world to make money.”

Keith Boots was sacked from West Yorkshire Police in March 2016.