Huddersfield cannabis factory case ends in jail sentences

May 28 2009 By Neil Atkinson

A GANG of six who cultivated skunk cannabis in secret across West Yorkshire are behind bars.

The five men and one woman started prison sentences yesterday after setting up drugs factories in Huddersfield, Bradford and Leeds.

Five of them are Vietnamese while the other is from China.

All were caught by drugs squad officers after a lengthy investigation lasting over 12 months into large scale skunk cannabis production.

At Bradford Crown Court, Judge Jonathan Rose sentenced them to a total of 17 years 8 months for conspiracy to produce cannabis, and two of them for money laundering.

The organised group were arrested by officers in March last year after they spotted a man wanted in connection with a cannabis factory in Girlington, Bradford. They followed him to a property on Claremont Road in Wrose and found five other people.