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Albanian Ylber Dajci has been imprisoned in England, after turning the former work center into a cannabis house, worth 1.9 million pounds.
The 42-year-old was caught tending a cannabis plantation in disused offices above the Gloucester Job Center last summer.
He was sentenced this Thursday to 25 months in prison, i.e. two years and one month of deprivation of liberty, while his extradition to Albania is expected.
Gloucester Crown Court heard that police were informed of the smell coming from the upper floors of the former warehouse building, as staff were alerted. At the same time, they found a water leak from the upper floor.
Prosecutor Simon Goodman said officers went to investigate on August 18, 2023. He added that no entry was made on that occasion, but three days later when Jobcentre staff spotted a man entering the building from the loading dock , the police were contacted again.
"This time officers forced entry into the building and discovered on the upper floors that 16 rooms had been set up to cultivate 2,373 cannabis plants, which were in various stages of development. Police also found a 42-year-old Albanian, Ylber Dajci, hiding in the middle of the plantation, who was estimated to have been able to produce between 66 and 199 kilograms of the class B drug. The potential value was £1.9m if sold in deals in road," Goodman said.
Dajci, of no fixed address, admitted to police that he was 'gainfully employed' as a gardener in the production of cannabis, but had little involvement in the rest of the operation.
This was also echoed by the drug police expert, who concluded that Dajci was himself in a bad condition and admitted that he was a gardener, that is, simply responsible for the daily care of plants.
The expert assumed that in these circumstances Dajci was likely to have been paid too little for his services. The court was told that the electricity meter on the upper floors of the building had been bypassed and that extensive electrical work had also been carried out inside the building.
The 42-year-old's lawyer, Catherine Spedding, said he had come to the UK illegally from Albania about 18 months before he was arrested.
"As part of this he had accumulated a trafficking debt. While fully intending to work legally, the lack of documents at his disposal prevented him from working legitimately and he fell back into the hands of traffickers in the country and was forced to become a gardener to pay off his debt. "Dajci is a family man and he regrets his involvement in this criminal enterprise as he fully believed that he was coming to this country to work legally, but the reality was very different," she said.
The judge, Recorder James Bromige, said that there was no evidence that Dajci had had problems with the police in this country or Albania before this crime.
"This, due to the number of cannabis plants being grown and the equipment being used in the 16 rooms on the vacant upper floors, was an industrial operation," he said.
The judge also ordered the confiscation and destruction of all drugs and paraphernalia.
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