Police turned up to investigate Coventry burglary but found cannabis factory instead

When the police turned up to investigate a report of a burglary at a Coventry house, they arrived in time to see two young men walking off the drive.

Although it turned out they were not the burglars, but the victims, they were reluctant to let the officers go inside.

And Warwick Crown Court heard that the reason was that upstairs they had set up a cannabis factory, which had been the target of the burglary in July last year.

Mohammed Khan and Wajid Sarwar both pleaded guilty to producing cannabis at the house in Stanley Road, Coventry, and Sarwar also admitted possessing cannabis with intent to supply it.

Khan, 21, of Cambridge Street, Hillfields, Coventry, was jailed for nine months, and Sarwar, 22, of Pondthorpe, Willenhall, Coventry, for ten months.

Prosecutor Gareth Walters said that at 2.40am in the morning the police responded to a call...

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