A police woman and her married lover have been jailed over a drug-fuelled affair in which she was pictured with a line of cocaine on her breasts. Kerry Reeve, 36, and fellow constable Adam Jackson, who both worked for Greater Manchester Police, were having an affair at the time they consumed the Class A drug while off-duty from their roles in police’s tactical aid unit. Images recovered from Jackson’s mobile phone showed the two officers spending the night together at Blackpool Football Club Hotel.

Jackson bought the drug off friend Daniel Wade, 36, who in turn scored it from street dealers, including Callum Wood and John Pounder, both of whom appeared in the dock alongside them at Manchester Crown Court and were also jailed. Between 2015 and 2017, Jackson arranged to buy and pick up bags of cocaine from Wade no less than 20 times. Some of which was for Jackson and Reeve’s stay at the football club in November 2016. The prosecution alleges a picture, found on Jackson’s phone, showed a line of cocaine on Reeve’s breast.

When anti-corruption officers arrested the pair in February 2017 at Reeve’s home in Barratt Gardens, Middleton, they found three snap bags of cocaine and one-and-half tablets of Ecstasy in a black holdall that Jackson carried into the address. Another snap bag containing cocaine was discovered on Reeve’s bedside table. Both officers denied being concerned in supply of cocaine and Reeve claimed she was unaware of the drugs being carried by Jackson. She also claimed that her requests were for her favourite drink of champagne. Reeve also suggested that Jackson sent her photograph of flour made to look like cocaine as ‘banter’, the court heard.

Sentencing her to 31 weeks in jail, Judge Michael Leeming said she had done her utmost to not accept responsibility in prepared statements to the police before she pleaded guilty in May to encouraging Jackson to obtain and supply cocaine to her on two occasions. Jackson was jailed for 18 months after he admitted encouraging the supply of cocaine and possessing cocaine and ecstasy.

In a statement, Greater Manchester Police said Jackson and Reeve would regularly take cocaine on nights out, in hotel rooms and ‘other secret locations’. The pair did not realise they were being covertly filmed by the force’s anti-corruption unit which was gathering evidence against them. Both officers were suspended following their arrest and later resigned when they entered their guilty pleas.

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