A worker in a cannabis factory fled across the rooftops of a row of terraced houses as police forced their way in through the front door, a court has heard. Geraldo Xixi spent half an hour on the roofs before returning to earth and being arrested in a nearby garden.
A search of the house the defendant fled from uncovered a commercial scale operation with 130 plants in plastic-lined rooms, lights, fans, timers, and fertilizer. It also emerged the people who set up the farm had dug up the street outside and tapped directly into the mains electricity cable before relaying the road.
Swansea Crown Court heard Xixi later claimed a gang had brought him the the UK because of a "blood feud" after his father killed a man in their hometown in Albania.
