A man was sentenced for the cultivation of cannabis, worth tens of thousands of pounds, at an address in Perivale.

Emiljan Ndreca, 25, was sentenced to 7-months in prison after being found guilty for the production of cannabis on Thursday 16 September.

According to Ealing Police, the cannabis seized had a street value of approximately £50,000.

Isleworth Crown Court heard that on Monday 9 August officers from the West Area Violence Suppression Unit (VSU) attended an address in Woodhouse Avenue, Perivale, after a tip-off that the address was being used to cultivate cannabis.

Once at the address officers discovered it was indeed being used as a cannabis factory, with multiple rooms set up for the growth of cannabis and a lone male was located inside who was working to cultivate and supervise the crop.

Ndreca, of no fixed abode, was located inside the address and he was arrested for production of cannabis and taken to custody and interviewed about the matter.

He was subsequently charged and remanded overnight to Uxbridge Magistrates' Court on Tuesday, 10 August where he entered a plea of not guilty.

Due to the strength of evidence against him, he changed his plea to guilty at a pre-trial hearing at Isleworth crown court on Thursday, 16 September.

PC Kevin Taylor of the Violence Suppression Unit team 2 said: "This was a great result following vital intelligence passed to us by the public.

"Cannabis production and the sale of it is a vital income source for organised crime groups and gangs.

"The money from it is used to fund further criminal activities and fuels ongoing violence on the streets.

"Shutting down this factory and imprisoning Ndreca who was being used to cultivate the crop has taken a tool out of the hands of the gangs to make money and fund criminal activities.

"We will do our best to shut down as many of these as we can and imprison anyone we can identify in the involvement of setting up or running them.

"This is just a small part of the work we are doing every day to help drive down drug related violence in the West Area."

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