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Kwik-Fit Workers Discover Hash Farm Above Tyre Depot

image Employees must have thought there was just a leak in the roof, however Leeds Crown Court sentenced Duc Van Tran to 20 months for conspiracy to make a quick fix above the Kwik-Fit branch

Staff at a Kwik-Fit centre in York recently discovered they had been working under a cannabis growing factory. Unbeknownst to them 387 cannabis plants with a street value of up to £46,000 had been growing in the space above the branch in York. According to a report in the Yorkshire Post, workers only made the surprising discovery when water leaked through the ceiling and they went up to investigate the damage. The news made the papers today (29 January) after Vietnamese illegal immigrant Duc Van Tran, an illegal immigrant from Vietnam admitted conspiracy to produce cannabis in a case at Leeds Crown Court. Tran has been jailed for 20 months. .. Please login below.


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