A CANNABIS farmer was caught tending a crop worth an estimated £30,000.

Karjan Qazimi, 25, was said to have been placed in the Oxford drugs factory and ordered to look after the plants.

Defending, John Berry told Oxford Magistrates’ Court on Saturday: “He was provided with food and somewhere to sleep and always a promise of greater things if he did what he was told.”

Qazimi, who had come to the UK from Albania around three months ago, was not entitled to work in Britain legally. He had entered a claim for asylum.

Appearing before the court wearing a black Moncler jumper and grey tracksuit trousers, Qazimi, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to production of cannabis.

He was arrested after police officers raided a house in Salford Road, Marston, on July 2. Five rooms had been given over to growing the class B drug.

Magistrates remanded him in custody to appear before Oxford Crown Court on July 27.

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