A man producing up to £12,000 worth of cannabis in his home was busted – after a heated lamp he used to grow the drug fell over and set fire to his flat.
The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS) was called to Thomas Watson’s top-floor flat on Elba Street in Ayr at 9pm on January 26 last year after a downstairs neighbour reported smelling smoke.
Watson, 59, refused entry to firefighters when they requested to check his flat over, claiming a small cooker fire was the reason for the smoke, which he had extinguished.
