A former police officer serving time for gun offences has admitted conspiring to defraud the NHS of £35,000.

Dexter Coleman-Mitchell, who was jailed for two years and four months in October after admitting possessing five stun guns and two handguns, committed the offence between November 2013 and December 2015, while director of Gravesend-based Electronic Products Network Ltd.

At Maidstone Crown Court this week, the company’s other director – Samuel Fathers, 29, of Black Eagle Drive, Northfleet – also admitted the fraud offence.

The pair went about attempting to deceive Camden and Islington NHS Trust into paying £35,033 for work supposedly carried out by Coleman-Mitchell, also 29 and of Austin Road, Northfleet.

Coleman-Mitchell was given a commendation for his “cool and calm behaviour” while serving in the Metropolitan Police in 2011 in London riots.

He left the force after his mother encountered financial difficulties and then set up Electronic Products Network Ltd, selling home appliances, printers and inks and more.

It was based in Stone Street, Gravesend, but this year moved to Springhead Enterprise Park in Gravesend.

It now has eight employees and a turnover of £1.2 million.

Little more detail was given about the case at this week’s hearing, but the court heard how the defence argued the true value of the fraud was closer to £20,000 and Judge Charles Macdonald QC adjourned sentencing until January 16, by which time the amount must have been agreed on.

Coleman-Mitchell was returned to custody and Fathers was released on unconditional bail.

In October, Coleman-Mitchell was jailed at Maidstone Crown Court after the court heard he was arrested when illegal weapons were seized from his home.

He had five stun guns disguised as mobile phones and two handguns. One of the stun guns was in his girlfriend’s handbag next to the bed.

There was no evidence any of the items had been used.