Two men jailed four years over Manchester cannabis nursery
Manchester Crown Court jailed Simon Withers and Wayne Green for four years each after they admitted turning a flat in Northern Moor into a cannabis nursery with heating, watering and ventilation systems. Police estimated the potential yield of the seized plants at more than £12,000.
Simon Withers and Wayne Green were each jailed for four years at Manchester Crown
Court after admitting turning a small flat in Northern Moor into a cannabis
nursery.[1]Police found heating, watering and ventilation systems in the
Ossington Court flat and estimated the potential yield of the seized plants at more
than £12,000.[1]The judge said the equipment had been installed with skill and
expertise, and that anyone setting up such a nursery had to expect a sentence
reflecting society’s disapproval of the drug.[1]
Withers, 30, of Epsom Avenue, Sale, and Green, 31, of Barrack Street, Hulme, had
pleaded guilty at the first opportunity to cultivating cannabis and possessing it
with intent to supply.[1]They were arrested after police saw them arrive at the
flat minutes after raiding it.[1]Their solicitor said both men were cannabis users
who had planned to supply known users and had not realised the seriousness of what
they were doing.[1]
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The page carries no publication date; 13 March 2001 is its archive-conversion date, used here as the publication date, so the sentencing may have been reported earlier.
No count of the seized plants was published, only the officers' estimate of a potential yield worth more than £12,000.
The whole account rests on a single local report; no second outlet confirms the case.
No photograph of the nursery with a recoverable direct image address was found in the opened source.
Darren Davis, 39, a homeless man, and his partner Catherine Evans, 36, were sentenced at Cardiff Crown Court in November 2026 for dealing 'spice' and a small cannabis quantity. Police found Davis carrying six bags of spice worth up to £750 on 2 June, and later searches of his hostel, a storage unit and Evans' home uncovered more drugs and thousands of pounds in cash.
Joel Niven, 20, of Walney near Barrow-in-Furness, was convicted of cannabis possession after officers recovered a sealed bag from him at Barrow Park. Magistrates fined him £80, ordered £117 in costs and surcharge, and sought forfeiture of the drugs. He had a previous caution for cannabis possession from December 2025.
Rorie Jeffs, 25, of Aylesbury, was found guilty of possession of cannabis at High Wycombe Magistrates' Court and ordered to pay £85 plus a further £26 surcharge. He was one of the most recent cases concluded at the court as reported in the 10 November 2026 round-up.
Three men were each jailed for four years over a large-scale cannabis factory in Greenock's former Tobacco Warehouse, raided in June 2025 with more than 1,000 plants. Ariel Ruko has appealed his sentence, with a hearing due at the High Court in Edinburgh on 17 November 2026.
