Police in '£1m' drugs bust after raid on 'cannabis jungle' in south-west London house

Sebastian Mann24 August 2016
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This was the moment police uncovered a "cannabis jungle" with a suspected street value of nearly £1 million in a south-west London house.

Officers in Kingston carried out the drugs bust on the property in Surbiton on Wednesday morning, finding an estimated 250 cannabis plants.

On entry to the house on Tolworth Rise North, they found four rooms packed with kit and the Class B drug.

Video posted online shows the moment police discovered the stash being grown under artificial lighting.

Discovery: Four rooms filled with cannabis plants were found at the address in Surbiton
@MPSKingston

Kingston Police captioned the tweet: "Looks like we found a #CannabisJungle today... Done some sums, potential £1,000,000 street value."

A spokesman added: "At 11.20am today police executed a search warrant at a residential address in Surbiton.

"Inside the premises officers found four rooms being used to grow cannabis, estimated at this stage to be 250 plants."

He said no arrests had been made.

Kingston Police's Pc Sebastian Ellis added: "This was a great bit of team work between our Safer Neighbourhood Teams.

"They all came together to execute the warrant and removed a huge amount of cannabis out of the supply chain".

Officers are now appealing for information. Contact police on 101, quoting reference 3314/24AUG17, with any clues.

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