This is the shocking moment police found an £80,000 cannabis farm growing inside a three bedroom terraced house in a suburban street.
Officers had gone to the house after a report of an "orange light" emitting from the property at Croft Avenue, Sunderland, in April 2020. Footage shows the family home had been converted to contain four "growing rooms", where there were 191 cannabis plants, in various stages of growth.
A video, taken by the police at the scene, shows 51 suspended ceiling lights and a complex series of equipment and wiring, linked to what appears to be
overloaded electrical boxes. The crop was capable of producing around 16 kilos of cannabis, that could have been worth up to £80,000 on the streets.