Illegal immigrant 'exploited' into watching over cannabis farm with 118 plants in Telford
An illegal immigrant who was "exploited" into watching over a cannabis farm likely worth tens of thousands of pounds has been jailed.
Ardit Lleshanaku, aged 22, was caught at a house in Singleton, Sutton Hill, Telford on March 29 this year where a "commercial scale" grow of 118 plants was discovered by police.
Shrewsbury Crown Court was told that police searched the three-storey property, which had CCTV outside, and found Lleshanaku in the kitchen. Every other room in the house was adapted for the production of cannabis.
Kevin Jones, prosecuting, said the downstairs of the house was the "growing room", which is where the plants were discovered along with £160 in cash and a mobile phone which "kept ringing while police were there".
There was other equipment set up to aid the enterprise and the electricity meter had been by-passed.
