A police officer's father who got himself addicted to class A drugs has been spared jail.
Bradford Crown Court was told yesterday how David Harris, 57, lost his construction business and wrecked his 25-year marriage when he developed what his barrister described as a "raging heroin habit".
He had been kicked out of the family home and was living at a house at West Park Terrace, Girlington, which prosecutor Gavin Howie said he allowed to be used as a base for supplying class A drugs.
The Honorary Recorder of Bradford Judge Stephen Gullick was told the house was raided by police in April, and more than £700 worth of crack cocaine and heroin was found.
Harris was interviewed and accepted what he had been doing. At an earlier hearing he pleaded guilty to allowing his premises to be used for the supply of class A drugs.
Elyas Patel, defending, told the judge Harris has a daughter in the West Yorkshire Police Force and once had everything to live for and much to be proud of.
He said a friend had got him to try drugs as a way of relieving the stress of running a successful business.
Since the offence Mr Patel said Harris has been trying to get himself off drugs and had been building bridges with his wife and daughter.
Judge Gullick made Harris the subject of an 18 months community order with the provision he attends on the drugs rehabilitation programme.
He warned Harris that if he fails to comply with the order then he could be jailed.
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