A man caught at a Bradford cannabis factory has been jailed for two years before he is deported back to Vietnam.
Luan Pham, 25, was arrested when drugs squad officers raided a house in Tong Street on June 15, Bradford Crown Court heard today.
He pleaded guilty to being concerned in the supply of cannabis.
Prosecutor Dave MacKay said plants in the cellar and a bedroom would have yielded a crop of skunk cannabis with a street value of £62,000.
Pham told police he arrived illegally in the UK by road about two months earlier.
Pham’s lawyer, Alan Bridger, said his client came to the country for a better life.
He had mortgaged his mother’s home to pay the traffickers to bring him here.
He was vulnerable to exploitation and brought to Bradford from London. His role was to water the plants.
Judge Jonathan Rose said that men of previous good character, such as Pham, would be jailed and deported for looking after cannabis factories.
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