20/09/2007 00:00:00
UK: Cannabis unit boss is jailed
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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/
Source:
http://www.ukcia.org/news/shownewsarticle.php?articleid=12852
Author:
Cambridge Evening News via UKCIA
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