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Pensioner Francis Garvey, 72, has been jailed for three years after turning his business premises into a cannabis farm
A retired inventor has been jailed after turning to ‘industrial scale’ cannabis farming in his seventies.
Francis Garvey, 72, was a respected businessman with interests in quarrying, haulage and property. In the nineties he invented the ‘Fingershield’ safety device, which is designed to stop children’s fingers from being trapped in doors, supplying thousands of schools and nurseries in the UK before expanding into overseas markets.
But, after stepping away from the safety products business in 2011 and losing millions in other deals, Garvey, of Ryecroft Road, Stretford, turned to crime.
A Manchester Crown Court sentencing hearing - where he wept as he was locked up for three years - heard he supervised cannabis farming after his business premises were converted into a drug production plant.
Officers who raided the
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