A judge apologised to an Albanian cannabis farmer for jailing him on the day he turned 33, telling him: ‘I hope there will be more pleasant birthdays in the future.’
Agim Cjapi was inside a building in a Cumbria market town when police raided it, discovering a crop of drugs worth up to £440,000, a court heard.
The ‘sophisticated’ cannabis factory was equipped with lights and irrigation, with plants growing in multiple rooms.
After being taken into custody, Cjapi claimed he was merely the ‘gardener’ acting on instructions from a criminal gang, with a court hearing he was ‘eager to return home’ to Albania.
He admitted cannabis
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