“The operation was capable of producing industrial quantities for commercial use.”
The court hearing was told the units were divided with plants at different stages of growth.Picture: Dorset Police The court heard Bruci, of unknown address, pleaded guilty as a male worker who was coerced or intimidated or pressured into working at the cannabis farm. Aliaj, of no fixed abode, came to work there because he needed to pay off those who had lent him money when he came to the United Kingdom in the first place. “The fact is you both came to this country as illegal immigrants to make money,” said Recorder Gebb QC.
The former Yates bar at Dean Park Crescent in Bournemouth A MAN’S “cowardly and entirely pointless attack” left another man with facial injuries he has to live with for the rest of his life. Samuel Furmidge committed the serious assault in Bournemouth town centre after both he and the victim had been asked to leave a venue following an altercation. The victim was sitting on a wall outside Yates in Dean Park Crescent when Furmidge, 24 and of Tern Court, Southbourne, came from behind him and kicked him in the head. A sentencing hearing at Bournemouth Crown Court on January 29 was told this blow knocked the man to the ground and his face slammed on the floor.
Dorset s largest ever cannabis farm discovered on industrial estate Pictures: Dorset Police THE largest cannabis factory ever discovered in Dorset was found by police on a Purbeck industrial estate – with more than 2,000 plants on the site. The operation at Sandford Lane Industrial Estate in Wareham had a potential crop yield of between £2.3million and £7.1million. A hearing at Bournemouth Crown Court on January 29 was told the factory was organised and professional , with the capability of producing industrial quantities for commercial use . Police s attention was brought to the site after a member of the public, who believed a burglary was taking place, reported concerns about a suspicious vehicle coming to and from the units in December 2019.
Stock photo. Picture: Dominic Lipinski/PA A MAN who sent messages inciting a 10-year-old girl to sexually touch herself and send him pictures was in fact communicating with members of a paedophile hunter group. Gary Chitticks pleaded guilty to attempting to cause or incite a girl under the age of 13 to engage in a sexual activity of a non-penetrative nature. The 36-year-old thought he was talking to a child called Ruby , but she was in fact a decoy child. Chitticks also admitted attempting to communicate with decoy child Lauren , who was aged under 16, with the communication being intended to encourage her to communicate sexually.
Florin Trandafir, inset, failed to stop aftwer a collision A MAN got behind the wheel of a BMW nearly four times over the legal alcohol limit and failed to stop after causing a collision, a court heard. Florin Trandafir, aged 41, of Howard Close, Weymouth admitted to driving his blue BMW whilst over the legal limit, driving without insurance, and crashing twice into a blue Renault Megane, which was parked on Alexander Road. The court heard how the owner of the Renault ran outside of his home after being told by a neighbour his car had been crashed into. The victim then saw Trandafir reverse into a wall on Hanover Road, which is when the keys were pulled from the ignition of the defendant’s car.