A former bank manager who enjoyed a jet-set lifestyle after setting up a “slush fund” has now been order to pay back almost £360,000.

Barrie Goldthorpe, 56, of Hill Top Avenue, Ainley Top, Huddersfield, was jailed for 42-months after he abused his position of trust as a group technology services manager to line his own pocket.

Bradford Crown Court heard how Goldthorpe’s extravagant lifestyle, which included lavish meals, a holiday by private jet to the south of France and use of a corporate box at Leeds United, raised suspicions among his colleagues and a scam involving bogus or inflated invoices came to light.

Goldthorpe and other defendants were jailed after they admitted conspiring together to defraud the bank out of more than £1million and today he was brought back to court from his prison cell to hear how much money he would have to hand over to the bank from his ill-gotten gains.

Prosecutor Charlotte Worsley told Judge John Potter, who sentenced Goldthorpe, that a financial investigation under the Proceeds of Crime Act had assessed his benefit from criminal conduct at £1,446,573.50.

But she said the inquiry had revealed that Goldthorpe currently had available assets totalling £359,463.91.

It is understood that the available money relates to an amount seized during the police investigation into the so-called slush fund and that cash will now be transferred back to the bank in the form of compensation.

Goldthorpe’s wife Jane also appeared in court as part of the POCA hearing, but she was only ordered to repay a nominal amount of £10.

The 45-year-old had been given a 12-month prison sentence, suspended for two years, for her limited role in laundering some of the stolen money.

She was also ordered to do 150 hours unpaid work for the community.

At Goldthorpe’s sentencing hearing Judge John Potter said it had been a professionally planned conspiracy which had realised large sums of money over a number of years.

During that hearing at Bradford Crown Court he described Goldthorpe as being driven by, and riddled with, dishonesty and greed on a ‘’breathtaking’’ scale.

‘’As soon as you were aware of the existence of the slush fund you wished to milk it for as much as you could with a view to living an extravagant and lavish lifestyle and so you did over a number of years living way beyond your means,’’ the judge told him.

The judge said Goldthorpe had also exerted control over his wife and concealed from her how their extravagant lifestyle was being funded.