Three members of a family have pleaded guilty to running a multi-million pound cannabis production and supply business from a west Wales property specially selected for its secluded location.
Husband and wife Edward and Linda McCann and their adult son Daniel moved from Hampshire to an isolated Carmarthenshire house with a large barn where they worked with two local men, Jack Whittock and Justin Liles, on an "industrial scale" drugs operation. As well as producing and supplying cannabis, the conspiracy also involved using the crop to make products such as cannabis oil and cannabis-infused chocolate.
The defendants dramatically changed their pleas and admitted their parts in the operation on the second-day of their trial at Swansea Crown Court. In light of the guilty pleas the prosecution offered no evidence against the McCanns' daughter Samantha, and she was formally found not guilty.
