2,000-plant Wishaw cannabis factory grower jailed for five years
Thomas McCulloch, 51, was jailed for five years at the High Court in Glasgow on 22 June 2009 for producing cannabis at a warehouse on the Garrion Business Park in Wishaw. Police had found 2,000 plants and equipment set up for almost six crops a year, a potential £3.6 million of cannabis, after a boy fell through the warehouse roof and died in 2006.
🇬🇧 Garrion Business Park, Wishaw, North Lanarkshire · United Kingdom
Thomas McCulloch, 51, was jailed for five years at the High Court in Glasgow
on 22 June 2009 for producing cannabis at a warehouse on the Garrion Business
Park in Wishaw.[1]He was found guilty of acting with another in being
concerned in the production of cannabis between 1 December 2005 and 17
September 2006.[1]
Police found 2,000 plants that could have produced £600,000 of cannabis per
crop, alongside equipment set up to grow a new crop almost six times a year, a
potential £3.6 million of herbal cannabis.[1]Officers had uncovered the
factory after 15-year-old Dean Cannon fell 30 ft through the warehouse roof in
September 2006 and died; the 2006 account put that haul’s value at up to
£500,000.[1][2]A two-storey timber building had been constructed inside the
factory to hide its heat from police helicopter infrared cameras.[1]
McCulloch claimed he had rented the unit as a base for a mobile car-valeting
business and sublet it to two men in March 2006, denying he had ever seen the
plants or equipment.[1]
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