A man involved in drug trafficking will be deported at the end of his prison sentence after CCTV led police to a cannabis farm. Electricity had been bypassed inside units at Crossgate Drive, on Queen's Drive Industrial Estate, in The Meadows, Nottingham Crown Court heard.
Arrested Aurel Cira, 29, of Allenby Road, Southall, Ealing, had his phone seized and suspicious messages were found - one asking him to load cannabis plants. He pleaded guilty to being concerned in producing cannabis after plants were found on January 31 this year.
More than 50 plants were found with a potential street value running into thousands of pounds. Cira, whose role was described as "gardener", was jailed for 18 months after he entered his guilty plea on Friday (June 30).
