Watch: £1m cannabis factory found hidden in town’s old Woolworths store

£1m cannabis factory found hidden in town's old Woolworths storeCambridgeshire Police

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00:00This is some of the waste product from the chemicals and old soil. Here we've got younger

00:13plants. This is the entry to the cannabis factory. As we go in we can see electrical equipment,

00:20soil just discarded which have been used for previous grows. Living conditions, you've got

00:26the toilet there with the water on the floor and electrical cables all over the place.

00:30Again a shower cubicle and more toilets so it shows that people have been living in here for a little

00:34bit of time. There are multiple rooms like this you'll see in the video just containing cannabis

00:41plants at different levels of growth therefore giving a continuous crop. Again you can see

00:49wiring just all over the place. This is more the living area so you can see they've customised it,

00:54TVs, sofas, American free trees. So it's been established for a little while and it's also

01:01the signs that there's multiple people or gardeners as we often call them living and working here.

01:06Often this can be slavery where they're forced to do it. It's unlikely in this factory that they're

01:13being forced physically and being bolted and locked in which we've seen in other places

01:17as they could get out but equally it could be being made to do it under fear of violence or debt.

01:24The factory was actually spotted by one of the neighbourhood officers on foot patrol,

01:39noticed that some brand new CCTV cameras had gone up on a deserted building.

01:44Some really good police and the officer thought it's a bit strange, inquired a bit more,

01:47heard what he believed was fans, put two and two together and about 10 minutes later we were inside.