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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Donna Ferguson and agencies

Eight jailed after posing as electricians to divert power to UK cannabis farms

Indoor cannabis farm bathed in yellow light
One of the many cannabis farms powered by criminals who posed as legitimate electricity workers to dig up cables and abstract hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of power. Photograph: North West Regional Organised Crime Unit/PA

A group of eight criminals who dug up roads and diverted electricity to cannabis farms run by organised crime gangs have been jailed by a judge in Liverpool.

The criminals used a legitimate company as cover and pretended to be workers who were digging up the roads to repair utilities in a “sophisticated operation”, according to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).

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