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TWO Merseyside men have been jailed after underground cannabis growing bunkers were found hidden inside huge railway tunnels in North Wales.

Officially a mushroom growing business was being run at the disused Faenol Tunnels on the Menai Business Park at Bangor.

But that was a front for a sophisticated cannabis business with hidden tunnels housing 11 distinct areas over 70 metres, including a staff area which had a microwave, television and CD player, five growing rooms and four irrigation rooms.

Today four men were jailed for their part in the operation.

They included Philip Joseph Bigley, 22, of Cottage Close in Liverpool and Christopher James McIntyre, aged 30, of Appleby Drive in Bootle, who received 12 months each after they admitted production charges. They worked as gardeners at the tunnels periodically because of pressure over drug debts.

Two sets of heavy steel doors and internal steel gates completely sealed the site.

But the gang was smashed thanks to police operation Gumshoe.

In May, police officers acting on information raided the premises and found the hidden industrial sized cannabis laboratories.Inside a cabin was a concealed trap door leading down through a tunnel to five large growing rooms - one of which had cannabis with an estimated street value of £225,000. But the potential annual turnover was between £1.5 million and £2 million.

A judge was today given a virtual tour of the operation by video.

Retired builder and great granddad Gerald Davies (63) of Craig y Don Road, Bangor, and bankrupt Kenneth John Vincent (59) a buildings designer from York Terrace, Beaumaris, were each jailed for three years and four months. They admitted producing cannabis and conspiring to supply the class B drug.

Mr Recorder Timothy Petts, sitting at Mold Crown Court, said it was described by the police as one of the best cannabis factories ever found in North Wales in recent history.

But it was clear that others, the brains behind the elaborate venture, should be in the dock as well, he said.

Elaborate precautions had been taken to try and ensure the cannabis factory was not discovered or raided. But it could not have occurred without the involvement of others. "There should be others standing alongside you in the dock today," he said.

He accepted that Davies and Vincent had been involved in a legitimate operation Menai Mushrooms at the tunnels, but they then gave in to pressure to help set up the cannabis venture.

"This was a facility on any view capable of producing at least £1.5 million worth of cannabis a year. This was no small scale set up," he said

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I saw the news story on here at the time but bugger me does that video show the true scale of it, what a monster of a grow room!

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I love seeing set ups like that but I hate the fact that some poor buggers have had to go to jail nefore I can see them. all because the uk government are fuckwits..

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