Pensioner who guarded UK’s biggest ever cannabis farm walks free

SITTINGBOURNE

  A pensioner has been spared jail for guarding the UK’s biggest ever cannabis factory after his fellow pot farmers were locked up for a total of 90 years. Alan Marquiss, 69, watched over more than 4,000 marijuana plants with a street value of up to £5.51million in Sittingbourne, Kent, between 21 October and 14 December 2015. He was one of 15 gang members who helped to cultivate potent skunk worth £26 million in two-storey wooden sheds in seven sites…

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