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UK: Cannabis unit boss is jailed
Cambridge Evening News
Thursday 20 Sep 2007 A BOSS whose business was failing turned his industrial unit into a cannabis factory. But police put paid to Martin Timothy's drugdealing plans when they raided the premises and discovered the largescale cannabis set-up. Now Timothy, who had more than 800 plants in production at the unit at Honeysome Road Industrial Estate, Chatteris, has been jailed. Cambridge Crown Court was told the 47- year-old, of Fenton Way, Chatteris, was running a metal fabrication and garage business from the unit and had established a sophisticated, potentially successful, cannabis factory there. Rooms with cannabis plants at various stages of growth, plus an area dubbed the "mother" room containing 22 large plants and more than 350 seedlings in an incubation unit, were found. Forensic analysis showed the 799 flowering plants could have produced a yield of 24 kilos - with a wholesale value of almost £90,000. Also found were 373 hollow-point bullets in the office safe, which was ammunition for a gun Timothy relinquished to the police when the firearms certificate for his legally-held shotgun expired. Timothy admitted the cannabis production and illegal possession of the ammunition. In mitigation, Azza Brown said Timothy set up the cannabis operation when his business went downhill and he faced money problems. Timothy was jailed for 15 months for the drug charge, with 15 months concurrent for the ammunition charge. http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/
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