Gang jailed over cannabis plot on industrial scale

A crime gang who were behind a huge conspiracy to grow cannabis in the UK has been jailed for a total of 90 years.

The multimillion-pound plot to cultivate cannabis on an industrial scale in Kent and Norfolk ran between 2013 and 2015.

The operation yielded cannabis with a street value of more than £25million a year, which investigators said would have been funnelled into funding further crimes. A total of 16,428 cannabis plants were seized at sites set up in Rochester, Sittingbourne and North Walsham.

Fifteen people were convicted at the Old Bailey of conspiring to produce cannabis.