Police arrived at a “sophisticated” cannabis farm in a residential street shortly after a gang had raided the property, a court has heard.
Officers had responded to reports of a disturbance and possible burglary at the house – and instead found a drug growing-operation which had taken over the whole property.
Police also found a Vietnamese national who had been working as a gardener in the plantation and who said he had just been assaulted by the raiders.
Swansea Crown Court heard that just before 6am on August 4 this year police received calls from people living in Pentregethin Road in the Ravenhill area of the city reporting that there appeared to be a burglary taking place.
Dean Pulling, prosecuting, said residents described hearing a disturbance and seeing four men “driving away quickly” from the property in a panel van and another man leaving on foot by jumping over a garden fence.
Officers were quickly on the scene and found the house in question had been “wholly given…
