Illegal immigrant grew £30k of cannabis

AN illegal immigrant caught growing cannabis plants worth £30,000 was jailed for two years yesterday.

Long Hoang, 33, was in charge of making sure a cannabis farm in Livingston, West Lothian, produced the class B drug on a commercial scale.

Hoang had tended the plants for ten days before police raided the premises on March 30, Livingston Sheriff Court was told.

Sarah O'Gallagher, prosecuting, said police suspected that the house in the Dedridge area of Livingston was being used as a cannabis farm.

Hoang, a prisoner at Saughton, earlier pled guilty to producing cannabis and being concerned in the supply of the drug. The court heard he entered the UK illegally from Vietnam via Russia.

He will be deported once he has served his sentence.