Coventry cannabis farmer launches Appeal Court bid to clear his name

Coventry cannabis farmer launches Appeal Court bid to clear his name

Elijah Clive Stokes, 30, of Banks Road, Radford, was locked up for seven years at Warwick Crown Court in June last year.

Coventry man, jailed after a huge underground cannabis factory was uncovered, has launched a bid to clear his name.

Elijah Clive Stokes, 30, of Banks Road, Radford, was locked up for seven years at Warwick Crown Court in June last year.

He was found guilty of producing the class B drug at Whitehouse Farm, in Ryton-on-Dunsmore, between Coventry and Rugby.

He had previously admitted growing cannabis at a house in Amy Close, Longford.

On Friday Stokes appeared over a video-link at London’s Criminal Appeal Court, where his lawyers argued his conviction for the Whitehouse Farm factory was ‘unsafe’.

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