A man has pleaded guilty to farming cannabis in Tolworth following a raid.

Tuan Nguyen, 22, was arrested last week when police raided a house in Hook Rise South.

Three areas in the house were being used for the drug farm, police said.

A recently-harvested crop was found drying out upstairs when officers carrying out a warrant burst into the house at about 7pm last Thursday.

A second crop was also being grown and another room held bags of fertiliser.

A neighbour said yesterday he had seen police outside the house.

They dug a hole in the ground to cut the electricity supply, he said.

The owner of a car parked in the driveway, displaying a driving school website, could not be reached for comment.

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Nguyen pleaded guilty at Lavender Hill Magistrates’ Court on Saturday.

He will be sentenced at Kingston Crown Court on Friday, August 23.

 

Previous farms found in Kingston:

- Cong Phuong Nguyen, a 17-year-old Vietnamese boy, died after a cannabis farm in New Malden caught fire in 2007.

- A teenager was sentenced to 100 hours’ unpaid work and fined £100 in August 2010 when police found cannabis plants in his garden in Hook, days before he was due for sentencing for dealing the drug.

- A mysterious farm with 50 plants was found in a field in Malden Rushett in October 2010. The plants were hidden in a plastic greenhouse ready for harvest. No one was
arrested.

- Surbiton man Freddie Lee was convicted in January of cannabis production in Thornhill Road. He had told police he was just house-sitting.

- Neighbours tipped off police about a farm in Kelvedon Close, off Tudor Drive, in Kingston this January, when 200 plants were seized.