Man who 'woke up' in Warwick cannabis farm jailed

He'll be behind bars for 22 months.

Author: Ben CartwrightPublished 11th Oct 2023

A man - who claims he woke up at a cannabis grow - has been jailed.

On 9 October, Tonin Pashollari was sentenced to 22 months in prison for cultivating cannabis following the discovery of a cannabis farm he had been tending in Sycamore Grove, Warwick.

He will also be required to pay a £187 surcharge.

Pashollari claimed in interview that he had gotten blackout drunk the night before his arrest on 5 September.

He says he woke up at the cannabis grow (that he claimed had nothing to do with him) when officers from Warwickshire Police put the back door through.

A total of 48 plants were found inside the property, at approximately 100cm in height. They had not yet commenced flowering.

Two bedrooms and the living room had been converted into growing space for cannabis, with numerous high-intensity lights, buckets of plant feed, and fans with carbon filters keeping the air from going stale.

The electrics of the property had been bypassed and an electrician had to be called out to make the house safe again.

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