A cannabis farmer caught growing the drug in a Marston house has been jailed.

Gafur Kadria, 22, was found tending the plants during a raid on a property in Milne Place on March 3.

He pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to producing a class B drug.

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And at a hearing at Oxford Crown Court on Tuesday, Judge Maria Lamb jailed him for eight months.

The drugs farmer will serve half of that before he is eligible for release on parole.

In March, officers took to Thames Valley Police’s Oxford Facebook page to post about the arrest.

They wrote: “Thanks to your help we will disrupt organised crime in your neighbourhood.”

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