A drug dealer who cultivated one of the most professional cannabis factories police had ever encountered was jailed on Tuesday — after being found out by the gas man.
Grant Guyan, 31, was sentenced to two years imprisonment at Dundee Sheriff Court after being discovered with a £30,000 crop in his Clepington Road townhouse.
He was rumbled after a Scottish Gas engineer came to the property to replace a meter.
Guyan pleaded guilty on indictment to producing and being concerned in the supply of cannabis between May 24 and August 6 of last year.
He had appeared at court in June, having admitted to police he had grown up to nine plants in the house he had inherited with his brother.
The gas engineer who attended Guyan’s property was helped in by a locksmith after arriving to replace the house’s gas meter.
When let in to the building, he discovered the hash farm on the upper floors after hearing a distinctive humming sound.
Depute Fiscal Kirsten Letford described to the court in June that text messages had been discovered on Guyan’s phone during the police investigation suggesting he was dealing drugs.
She said: “When he spoke to police he immediately said he had nine cannabis plants.
“There was various paraphernalia including water pumps running to the bathroom.
“The reporting officer said it was the most professional set up he had ever seen.
“A total of 2.75 kilograms of dried herbal cannabis was found with a potential illicit value of £27,500.
“If the seedlings that were growing were harvested they would have had a value of between £3,420 and £10,200.
“A previous crop had been preserved and was drying at the time.
“Text messages were found that suggested he was dealing the drugs.”
Sheriff Alastair Carmichael sentenced Guyan to 24 months in jail, backdated to Tuesday June 18.
The sentence was discounted from 30 months, Sheriff Carmichael said, in light of his early guilty plea.
