Police house raid uncovers secret cannabis factory

126 PLANTS AND GROWING EQUIPMENT WERE SET UP

- By MARK NAYLOR

POLICE raided a house and found a secret cannabis factory where a large-scale and potentially highly lucrative operation had been set up to grow 126 plants with a likely “very significant yield”.

The man who was looking after the cannabis plants had already been jailed on an earlier occasion for a similar cannabis growing enterprise and he had brazenly ignored a deportation order by entering this country illegally again just a week before the operation was discovered, Hull Crown Court heard.

Paulius Juknys, 26, of Boulevard, west Hull, but recently in custody on remand, admitted being concerned in producing cannabis on June 27 and entering the UK in breach of a deportation order on June 20. The order had been made under the Immigration Act on April 14 last year.