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Scotland: 250,000 UKP cannabis man is jailed
Glasgow Evening Times
Thursday 31 May 2007 A VIETNAMESE man who was cultivating a major cannabis farm in a city centre house has been jailed for four and a half years. A judge also recommended that Hai Phu Nguyen should be deported - despite holding a passport from a European Union country - because of his involvement in organised crime. Police discovered enough plants in the house in Glasgow to produce £250,000 worth of the drug. advertisement At the High Court in Edinburgh, Lord Hodge told Nguyen, 24, who holds a Slovak passport: "Cannabis was cultivated on a very large scale in a sophisticated process which took the plant to its harvest in a cycle of about 10 or 12 weeks." Nguyen had earlier admitted cultivating the drugs at a house in Westminster Terrace, in the Anderston area, in November last year. Police were told the house was being used for growing drugs and got a strong smell of cannabis when they raided the premises. The house was being rented out for £2000 a month and a £10,000 investment was made in growing the crop. The only room in the large house not being used for drug growing was the kitchen where Nguyen slept on a mattress. Four rooms containing 580 cannabis plants in pots. Nguyen told police that a man had asked him to stay at the address to grow plants for medicine'. Defence solicitor advocate Des Finnieston said Nguyen had arrived in Glasgow and had gone to restaurants frequented by South-east Asian nationals seeking work and a place to stay. He was offered accommodation and was asked to look after the place. Mr Finnieston said: "He states he received no financial gain from this undertaking, but he was being fed. It can be said for the accused that he was a very small cog in this operation." http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/
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