A POLICE officer planted cannabis resin in the desk of a colleague because he was jealous of his promotion prospects, a court has heard.

Stuart Hayward-Rutter, 46, of Wenhaston, near Halesworth, is accused of placing cannabis in a desk drawer belonging to Detective Constable Mark Beresford at Leiston Police Station and falsifying a memo about the drug to the force's complaints and discipline department.

Both incidents are alleged to have happened between August 12 and August 16, 1999, a jury at Norwich Crown Court was told yesterday.

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