Four jailed over 670-plant £510,000 cannabis factory in Huddersfield
Four men were jailed at Leeds Crown Court on 22 May 2024 for producing cannabis at a former commercial building on Blackmoorfoot Road, Huddersfield, where police found 670 plants worth an estimated £510,000 during a raid that March.
🇬🇧 former commercial building, Blackmoorfoot Road, Huddersfield · United Kingdom
Four men were jailed at Leeds Crown Court on 22 May 2024 for running a cannabis
factory in Huddersfield.[1][2]Police found 670 cannabis plants worth an estimated
£510,000 inside a former commercial building on Blackmoorfoot Road during a raid
in March.[1][2]Enea Bajrami, 25, and Ervin Jamaku, 22, were each sentenced to one
year and three months; Florin Cena, 23, received one year; and Denald Pashja, 26,
received eight months, all for producing a class B drug.[1][2]
Police reaction
Inspector Andy Barraclough of West Yorkshire Police called the site a significant
operation that could have produced drugs worth many hundreds of thousands of
pounds.[1]He said closing the factory and convicting the four men producing
cannabis there would have dealt a blow to the organised criminals who financed it
and expected revenue from it, and he thanked members of the public whose
information supports action against cannabis production in Huddersfield.[1][2]The Cannabis Law Report carried the same account of the case.[2]
Photos and video
Police photograph of the cannabis plants found at the Blackmoorfoot Road propertyPhoto details
The reports give no exact date for the March raid.
The Cannabis Law Report republishes the BBC's account of the case, so the sentencing rests on a single newsroom report plus the police quotes within it.
Who financed the factory and whether further arrests followed was not reported.
Callum Roper, 22, of Holton Road, Barry, was jailed for 30 months at Cardiff Crown Court after admitting offences involving the supply of cannabis and magic mushrooms. He pleaded guilty to being concerned in the supply of both drugs between 3 December 2025 and 14 September 2026 and had been remanded in custody awaiting sentence.
Bolton Crown Court sentenced seven members of three linked drug gangs that trafficked cocaine and cannabis between Manchester, Stoke-on-Trent and North Wales. Five men received prison sentences of up to eleven and a half years, while two couriers received community orders and two leaders await later sentencing.
Daniel Thompson, 36, was found with 8,223.6 grams of cannabis resin, valued at up to £35,950, when officers searched a house on Moss Side Lane in Rixton in July 2023. Chester Crown Court gave him a nine-month prison sentence suspended for 12 months and 100 hours of unpaid work after he admitted possessing the resin with intent to supply and possessing cocaine.
Sentenced 1Cannabis 8.2236 kgPrison 9 months suspended for 12 months
Bradford Crown Court jailed Alfie Leahy, 21, for five years and Connor Broadbent, 26, for three years and four months over drugs found when police raided two homes in the Holmewood area at dawn on 17 July 2026. Cannabis was seized at a Grayswood Crescent address and cocaine, cash and jewellery at Dawson Street; police put the total street value of the drugs at more than £22,000.
Charged 2Prison 5 years (Leahy); 3 years and 4 months (Broadbent)
