Abandoned BHS shop is turned into £1.3million cannabis farm with more than 1,700 plants across two floors

Two men have been jailed after nearly £1.3m worth of cannabis plants were found inside an old BHS store.

Ajet Begu, 40, and Aryan Turya, 27, were found inside the former High Street shop in Slough along with 1,700 cannabis plants at various stages of maturity.

Officers forced entry into the disused shop on January 28 after identifying that it was being used as a cannabis factory across two floors.

The plants had a potential yield of 150.27kg, which a drug expert witness estimated to have a street value of £1,288,020, or £525,000 wholesale. 

The town’s BHS closed in 2016 when the entire chain

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