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UK: Three jailed after Hull's biggest cannabis haul found in raid
Hull Daily Mail Monday 16 Jan 2012 Toan Vo, 34, Vuong Vu, 30, and Dat Truong, 22, were jailed for two-and-a-half years each after been arrested at a Hull City Council-owned industrial unit in the city centre. The three illegal immigrants were caught cultivating more than 2,700 cannabis plants worth more than £2 million at the factory in Northumberland Avenue. Sentencing the men at Hull Crown Court, Judge Michael Mettyear said it was the largest haul he had ever had to deal with. He said: "This was a very large-scale operation, much larger than the smaller operations that we are used to in this area. The premises were converted in an extremely sophisticated way to facilitate the growing of the cannabis. "When the police raided the premises, they found 2,769 plants, which it was estimated would produce 110kg of cannabis." The building, situated in an industrial area of the city off Fountain Road, was raided at around 12.30pm on Wednesday, December 14. Officers took action after workers at nearby businesses reported a "strong smell" of cannabis. They discovered the haul of cannabis, which dwarfed the 1,691-plant operation found in a four-storey house in Spring Bank earlier in 2011. A team of several police officers took almost ten hours to clear the factory of the plants together with more than 320 lighting units, 283 transformers, 14 filters, 17 extractor fans and eight propagators. The haul of plants is believed to be one of the biggest in England and was spread across ten rooms, adapted for the cultivation of the drug. Each room had a sign on the door with the details of exactly what was inside. When the officers raided the building, two of the men tried fleeing out the back door, while the other hid in the loft. An investigation by Hull City Council is still being conducted after the warehouse was turned into one of the country's biggest cannabis factories. The Mail understands the building had been listed for sale by NPS – a firm that controls the city council's commercial property stock – after the Hull Skills Academy vacated it last autumn. Hull Crown Court heard how the men had been promised £1,000 a month to look after the factory, but had never received any money. Judge Mettyear considered handing out longer custodial sentences but heard the three men would be deported back to Vietnam after serving half their sentences. http://www.thisishullandeastriding.co.uk/jailed-Hull-s-biggest-cannabis-haul-raid/story-14436531-detail/story.html
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