Trio caught looking after £1.5m cannabis farm in abandoned Telford industrial unit are locked up
Three illegal Albanian immigrants discovered looking after a £1.5m cannabis farm in a disused Telford industrial unit have been jailed.
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The three men were found inside a building which had been re-purposed for the illegal production of the drug, with 14 rooms crammed with cannabis plants - and incredibly a second floor added to the unit to fit more in.
The details were revealed at a sentencing hearing at Shrewsbury Crown Court, where Emiljano Xhafa, Ramadan Kapaj, and Genti Binjaku, all admitted one charge of being concerned in the production of a class B drug.
The three were discovered when police raided the abandoned unit on Hortonwood in Telford on November 8.
They were caught as they tried to escape out of a back door, one of them using a crowbar.
Judge Anthony Lowe was told various details of how the men came to be at the unit - with one having come to the UK on a dinghy in search of work, only to be sent to Telford by a gang growing the drugs.
Barristers representing all three men said they wanted to return home to Albania as soon as possible.
