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Wrexham House Converted Into Cannabis Growing Factory (16 November 2011)
Date: 16/11/2011
A rented property near Wrexham was converted into a large cannabis-growing factory that would have provided its tenants with over £70,000, a court has heard. Police officers who raided the house in Wrexham discovered that all four of the property’s bedrooms were used to grow cannabis plants. The police have told of how the number of plants in the property exceeded 300. The adult plants are expected to have produced almost five kilograms of cannabis. This would have allowed the tenants to garner £33,000 in cash. The property contained around 100 small cuttings, which could have potentially yielded six kilograms on maturation. This would have earned the tenants an additional £43,000, according to prosecuting solicitor, Sandra Subacchi.
Police arrested Nicholas Stokes whose job it was to tend to the plants. Mr. Stokes, who was offered the £100-per-week job and the opportunity to reside in a luxury property rent free, admitted his guilt to cultivating cannabis plants in April of this year and was handed a 21-month jail term at Mold Crown Court. Judge Rhys Rowlands claimed that the prosecution had accepted that Mr. Stokes had not run the operation and not set to make a profit from his actions. Mr. Stokes had refused to name the man behind the operation. Paul Smith, defending, told the court that Mr. Stokes has had no prior involvement with drugs and had previously been employed as a roofer.
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