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Hieu Nhan Vo, a 34 year old Vietnamese man, has been jailed for 13 months at Bristol Crown Court and will be deported upon finishing his sentence after a drugs raid by police in Weston Super Mare uncovered cannabis worth approximately £500,000.

The drugs raid, carried out by police on June 1, targeted an address on The Boulevard in Weston Super Mare, and turned up a sophisticated cannabis growing operation, complete with lighting equipment and various chemicals.

A second raid at an address on Atlantic Road South uncovered another factory for the cultivation of cannabis. In total, 680 plants were seized.

Hieu Nhan Vo was arrested on the premises of the drugs factory on the Boulevard, and was later found to have entered the UK illegally.

Pc Marc Flavell said of the operation that "This was a significant result in our ongoing campaign to tackle drugs in the town. Many of the plants seized were at a stage where they would have been cropped and bought onto the streets of Weston within the next few weeks causing harm to the wider community. I would like to thank the local community for their continued support and ask anyone who may have information on cannabis cultivation or drug dealing in your area to report it to us."

We'll once again refer readers to the BBC, which in a story giving advice on spotting cannabis factories tells us that one possible sign is "when premises appear unoccupied most of the time but there are people, often of south-east Asian appearance, seen visiting late at night"

Says it all really, there's no mistaking just who it is responsible for putting a lot of drugs on to the streets of Britain.