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UK: Businessman made total of £150k from sale of cannabis-growing equipment on internet

Derby Telegraph

Tuesday 16 Nov 2010

A BUSINESSMAN who sold cannabis-growing equipment on the internet made £150,000 from his illegal trade.

Jason Kirby sold literature, growing systems and equipment for the cultivation of cannabis plants and was jailed for 14 months.

Derby Crown Court heard the total amount he made from his internet business, Thermal Grow UK, in a proceeds of crime act hearing.

The act means that anyone who profits from crime can lose the financial and lifestyle gains they have enjoyed.

Kirby was ordered to sell his house, co-owned with his partner, and hand over his share of the money made.

Judge Michael Fowler calculated this would be £63,750 and ordered him to pay it within six months or serve an 18-month jail sentence.

Kirby, of New Road, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire, was tracked down by Derbyshire police on the back of a case in 2008 involving two men who were charged with running a city hydroponics business.

Police said paperwork found in this investigation alerted them to Kirby's internet business, being run from Cambridgeshire.

At the sentencing hearing in May last year the court heard the equipment "was clearly intended to be used by those who were going to be growing drugs".

Kirby, 40, previously admitted conspiring with another to incite the production of cannabis for 11 months, between 2005 and 2006.


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