Overview
- Liverpool Crown Court ruled his criminal benefit at £179,372.17 and set the repayment at £75,420.67, matching his known assets.
- He has three months to pay or he will be returned to court to serve an additional two years in prison.
- Talbot remains liable for the outstanding benefit and can be brought back to court if new assets are identified.
- Investigators found he stole just under 4kg of cocaine from the GMP property store between 2018 and 2020 and supplied it on Manchester streets.
- The anti-corruption probe began after he dropped a bag of cocaine outside his daughter’s school, with further inquiries uncovering misuse of police systems and assistance to convicted dealer Keith Bretherton.