Illegal immigrants turned Scots home to £500k drug factory

Illegal immigrants turned Scots home to £500k drug factory.

Two illegal immigrants from Vietnam planted more than 500 cannabis plants in a three-bedroom Dundee home.

A pair of illegal immigrants transformed a humble Scottish terrace house into a half-million-pound drug factory.

After sneaking into the UK, the Vietnamese duo planted over 500 cannabis plants behind closed doors on a quiet residential street in Dundee.

When the property was raided, the cannabis inside the three-bedroom terrace was worth more than four times the house’s value of £125,000.

Ban Van Nguyen and Long Van Le were caught red-handed tending the massive cannabis crop growing on the property at 2 Dighty Gardens in Dundee.

Dundee Sheriff Court was told that 510 plants, worth up to £382,500, were recovered when police raided the house on January 16th of this year.

Dundee Sheriff Court Dundee Sheriff Court (Image: Daily) Officers forced their way in after the duo had harvested more than 14 kilos of cannabis worth £143,060 and were drying it for sale. On January 16, Nguyen, 53, and Le, 33, admitted to being involved in cannabis supply and production at the property.
Fiscal depute Duncan McKenzie told the court: “In December 2024 and January 2025, Police Scotland received information about a cannabis cultivation in a busy residential area.
“Entry was forced, and both were found inside. Most of the rooms on the property had been converted into cannabis cultivation areas. The upstairs bedroom served as a drying room.”Cannabis buds were spread across the floor and dried using a desk fan. Both were arrested.

 

Their DNA was found on a variety of items around the property. “There was no reasonable basis to conclude that either was a victim of modern slavery.” Neither has the right to remain in the UK.
The Home Office is looking into both of their immigration statuses. Sheriff Tim Niven-Smith remanded both men in custody to prepare social work reports and warned them that they could face a lengthy jail sentence.
He mentioned that an assessment of their backgrounds had already been conducted, and it was determined that neither of the two had been victims of human trafficking.

 

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