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1,000 cannabis plants seized

 
Discovery: Central Task Force found over 1,000 cannabis plants in a factory in east London
10 April 2012
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Two Vietnamese men were being questioned today after police seized more than 1,000 cannabis plants in a raid on an illicit drugs factory on an industrial estate in Leyton.

Police found four "growing rooms" equipped with high powered lights and irrigation equipment to encourage growth. The two men, aged 25 and 32, are suspected of being the "gardeners" who were left at the site to tend and guard the plants.

Officers from the Met's Central Task Force raided the address after a tip-off from local police. The factory is one of the largest to be found in the capital and is part of a multi-million-pound trade in home-grown cannabis. The Met shuts about 350 cannabis factories a year in London.

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