An illegal immigrant was looking after a large North East cannabis farm with days of arriving in the UK on a small boat.
Trung Phan arrived at Dover on May 28 last year and was taken to an immigration centre then moved to Home Office accommodation in London.
But with the help of underworld contacts, he managed to travel to Newcastle that same day and by June 12 he was living in a cannabis farm on Cowpen Road, in Blyth, Northumberland.