A man caught tending a 100-plant cannabis farm in Bradford has been jailed for 18 weeks.

Albanian national, Laert Verushi, was hiding in the loft when the police forced their way into the house in Stephenson Street, Great Horton, on the morning of August 28 last year.

Verushi, 31, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to being concerned in the production of cannabis and possession of an identity document with an improper intention.

Prosecutor Camille Morland told Bradford Crown Court today that police officers found the cannabis grow when they broke into the address shortly after 9am looking for someone.

Two upstairs rooms had plants in pots and others drying on a line. There were 50 seedlings and 26 drying plants in one bedroom and 26 more plants drying in the other room.

The grow had lights and transformers and the electricity meter had been bypassed.

Verushi had a fake Italian identity card on him, Miss Morland said.

He told the police he had been at the farm for ten days and had been given £200 to pay for food for himself and two other men caught at the house who had not yet been charged.

Rodney Ferm said in mitigation that Verushi was first held in custody and then on a qualifying curfew meaning he had served his sentence.