Two jailed 30 months each over 1,500-plant Ipswich cannabis factory
Ipswich Crown Court jailed Blerim Mema, 21, and Graci Fekolari, 29, for 30 months each on 28 March 2014 for a 13-room cannabis factory on Henley Road raided that February. Police found about 1,500 plants worth up to £500,000; electricity charges were left on file.
Police raided a house on Henley Road on 14 February 2014 and found about 1,500 cannabis plants growing across thirteen rooms.[1][2]Officers spent the weekend removing plants and equipment from the property.[2]Police said the drugs could have had a street value as high as £500,000.[1][2]
Blerim Mema, 21, and Graci Fekolari, 29, both of Henley Road, were charged with production of cannabis and abstraction of electricity and remanded to appear at crown court on 25 February.[2]They admitted producing cannabis at Ipswich Crown Court and were each jailed for 30 months on Friday 28 March 2014.[1]The two denied electricity counts were allowed to lie on file.[1]
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Thirteen rooms in the house were filled with cannabis plantsPhoto details
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)
