A man and woman were found by police during a Leeds house raid to be tending to a lucrative cannabis farm potentially worth more than half-a-million pounds.
Officers raided the end-terrace property on Garton Terrace on Richmond Hill on April 18 where they found Isa Hotaj and Toni Broughton inside. Leeds Crown Court heard that 43-year-old Broughton was “crying hysterically”, and 29-year-old Hotaj was found to have £640 cash on him. More than 290 cannabis plants were found across four floors, along with the professional set-up of lamps, filters and fans to ensure the plants grow. There was also plastic sheets across the windows and floor.
They both gave a no-comment police interview, but Broughton claimed she was from the Warrington area in Lancashire and had been forced to go the address in Leeds after her and her family were threatened. They both admitted an offence of producing cannabis. No mitigation was offered by either defendants’ barristers after Judge Ray Singh proposed to jail the pair for the minimum amount of time he could.
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