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UK: Cannabis farm run from home
Sheffield Star Wednesday 02 Aug 2006 AN ILLEGAL immigrant who fronted a huge super-strength cannabis factory in Sheffield has been jailed and warned he will be kicked out of the country. Vietnamese-born Mudi Nguyen was arrested after police raided a house in Staniforth Road, Darnall, and discovered 1,250 plants with a total street value of �150,000. Each room had been furnished with industrial lighting equipment and extractor units, as well as dehumidifiers and a watering pump. The walls had also been covered in silver foil to increase the temperature, Sheffield Crown Court heard. Nguyen, who arrived in the UK on a lorry in 2004, said he had been paid �50 a week by a fellow Vietnamese criminal to act as a gardener for the high strength skunk cannabis. Judge Roger Keen QC jailed the 30-year-old for two-and-a-half years and recommended he should be deported at the end of the prison sentence. The judge said: "You played a part, albeit a small part, in an industrial sized cannabis farm. This was serious offending. "You came here illegally in 2004 and there is no evidence you have done anything worthwhile. You have not contributed to this country at all, on the contrary, you have resorted to crime. "It is my judgement that your presence here is to the detriment of its citizens." Nguyen told officers he became involved in the enterprise because he couldn't find legitimate work after losing a finger in a motorbike accident. Richard Barradell, defending, said: "Somebody is making a lot of money out of this, but not the defendant. In the hierarchy of cannabis production in this country, he is nothing more than a greenhouse man who is being used by someone else." Nguyen pleaded guilty to cultivating cannabis during a four-week period in November and December last year on the basis he acted as a gardener of the crop. http://www.sheffieldtoday.net/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=58&ArticleID=1666629 LETTERS: starletters@sheffieldnewspapers.co.uk
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