A cannabis farm gardener who was earning up to £800 a week tending to a drugs factory has been jailed.
Ensuild Baha, who is originally from Albania, had come to the UK legally on his Greek passport, having served in the military there. He worked lawfully in various jobs in the UK but when he became unemployed he took up a criminal job for some "older Albanian men" looking after 200 cannabis plants in Sunderland.
Police had been contacted about the smell of the drugs coming from the house and when they turned up on June 19, Baha and another man tried to run away. The other man fled but Baha was caught.