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.