A man who claimed he had just woken up in the middle of a cannabis farm has been sentenced to 22 months in prison.

Tonin Pashollari was handed the jail term on Monday (October 9) after the grow was discovered in Sycamore Grove, Warwick earlier this year.

Pashollari claimed in interview that he was blackout drunk the night before his arrest on 5 September.

He says he woke up at the cannabis grow (that he claimed had nothing to do with him) when officers from Warwickshire Police put the back door through.

Two bedrooms and the living room had been converted into growing space for cannabis, with numerous high-intensity lights, buckets of plant feed, and fans with carbon filters keeping the air from going stale.

A total of 48 plants - which had not started flowering - were found inside the property.

The electrics had been bypassed, and an electrician had to be called out to make the house safe again.

PC MacDonald of Warwick SNT said "Another day, another grow, another dent in the financial powerhouse of organised crime that is cannabis production, and another community that we've made just that bit safer.

"In short – we're very happy with the result, and we thank the community for their support in identifying the property.

"They're sick of the crime that these farms bring to their doorsteps, and so are we." 

He will also be required to pay a £187 surcharge.