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Rob Kennedy

Illegal immigrant jailed after police found him looking after cannabis farm in Ashington

A cannabis farmer was caught crouching in the loft of a three-bedroom house that had been turned into a drugs factory.

Illegal immigrant Canh Nguyen had been brought to the North East with the promise of employment as a cleaner but was instead put in a house in Ashington, Northumberland, and told to water the extensive cannabis farm which had been set up.

Almost every room in the property on Chichester Close had been turned into a drugs production unit, with more than 450 plants at various stages of growth. Now Nguyen, who admitted producing cannabis, has been jailed at Newcastle Crown Court.

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