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Huge cannabis factory found inside North Wales railway tunnels containing drugs worth £225,000
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Daily Mail

By HARRIET ARKELL
PUBLISHED: 17:42, 3 December 2012

With reader comments

  • Elaborate steel gates, doors and a trapdoor concealed sophisticated drug operation hidden behind legitimate mushroom farm
  • Gerald Davies, Kenneth Vincent, Phillip Bigley and Christopher McIntyre jailed for their work at the operation

A mushroom farm based in disused railway tunnels was in fact a front for a sophisticated cannabis operation with a potential annual turnover of more than £2m. Police raided the underground business after a tip-off and found a warren of industrial-sized growing rooms hidden behind fortress-like steel gates. Today four men were jailed for their part in the operation at the disused Faenol Tunnels on the Menai Business Park at Bangor, north Wales.

In May, police officers acting on information raided the premises and found the hidden industrial sized cannabis laboratories. Inside was a Portakabin with a concealed trap door leading down through a tunnel to five large growing rooms - one of which housed cannabis with an estimated street value of £225,000. But the potential annual turnover was between £1.5 million and £2 million.

A judge was today given a virtual tour of the operation by video at Mold Crown Court, where the men were sentenced after earlier guilty pleas. Retired builder and great grandfather Gerald Davies, 63, of Craig y Don Road, Bangor, and Kenneth John Vincent, 59, a buildings designer from York Terrace, Beaumaris, admitted producing cannabis and conspiring to supply the class B drug. They were each jailed for three years and four months.
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Well if the UK is anything like here a really big bust goes down and prices go up and availability goes down for a few weeks. Then once someone get's the first crop to fill the void prices drop again over a period of a few weeks.
 
to be truthful i do not see it making that big an impact the business in uk is so large now that we export plus just looking on a certain drug site and the amount of home growers its more a matter of what type to buy now that ability to get hold of it :)
 
Sounds like it was an impressive set up that they had going there. Such a shame that there is always someone willing to give the game away.
Snitches get stitches.
 
wow what a set up, such a cool location, the pics and vid are great.. Shame they got busted.
 
slimvictor said:
Wow, I always thought cannabis was a plant - didn't know it was produced in a factory! :|

Good thing they put those men in jail - even the great-grandfather.
What if they produced more cannabis, and more people smoked it, and felt comfortable, relaxed, and silly?8o
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seriously
 
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