|
Cannabis Campaigners' Guide News Database result:
|
|
UK: Cannabis farmer 'locked in house'
Bolton News Wednesday 19 Sep 2012 Nam Ho, aged 21, who had pleaded guilty to producing cannabis and obstructing police, was jailed for two years by Recorder Craig Osborne, at Bolton Crown Court. David Pojur, prosecuting, told the court how police went to a house in St Helens Road on August 26, after reports that two men were kicking the front door in. Officers found Ho hiding in the kitchen with three rooms filled with 300 cannabis plants tended by a sophisticated lighting and ventilation system. Ho initially gave police a false name but then told officers, through an interpreter, he had been brought to England as an illegal immigrant in a lorry by traffickers after his parents decided he should come to this country. To pay off the money his parents had borrowed to fund his journey, he was offered work in the cannabis farm. Suzanne Gower, defending, said Ho had been locked in the house and given his instructions about growing the plants over the telephone. "He was, in many ways, exploited by those involved in the operation," she said. Recorder Osborne was told that Ho has made an application for asylum, but if it fails he will be automatically deported. http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/9935827.Cannabis_farmer____locked_in_house___/
After you have finished reading this article you can click here to go back.
|
This page was created by the Cannabis Campaigners' Guide.
Feel free to link to this page!