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Illegal immigrant jailed for running cannabis factory worth up to near

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Submitted by Marijuana News on Sat, 09/12/2015 - 04:07

AN illegal immigrant paid $20,000 to human traffickers on the promise he would be given employment in the UK, only to be left to run a 245 cannabis plant facility.

Vietnamese national Dong Hoang, 41, handed his family savings to people smugglers and left his wife and two children behind, a court heard.

Hoang was told he would be given a job but instead had to look after the cannabis facility at a Blackwood house in isolation, his barrister Andrew Jones said.

Today, Newport Judge RA Britton sentenced him to nine months in prison after he pleaded guilty to producing cannabis.

Hoang is to be deported back to his country after serving half his sentence in custody, Newport Crown Court heard.

Mr Jones told the court how Hoang travelled to London and then Cardiff before being left in the house in Bryngoleu Terrace, Pontllanfraith.

Mr Jones said he was only...

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