A JUDGE jailing a chef caught red-handed tending a £25,000 drugs farm has warned that people growing cannabis for profit will be locked up.

Patryk Dros, 21, told the police he was living rent free at the house in Victoria Street, Keighley, and had been promised £10,000 for caring for the crop.

He was jailed for 18 months on Friday by The Recorder of Bradford, Judge Roger Thomas QC, who said the message must go out that commercial cannabis growers will be jailed.

Prosecutor, John Bull, told Bradford Crown Court 88 cannabis plants were seized from the address when it was raided by the police on October 13 last year.

There were 25 plants in the cellar and 63 in a bedroom.

Mr Bull said there were discarded stalks, stems and root boles.

The potential yield at the factory was three kilos of cannabis with a street value of up to £25,000.

Dros, who had no previous convictions, pleaded guilty to production of cannabis and abstracting electricity.

His lawyer, Upkar Bahia, said his client ias a hard-working chef and kitchen hand.

He lost the tenancy of his previous address and, when he came back from a holiday in Poland, he was offered accommodation at the Keighley house rent-free if he looked after the cannabis plants.

Mr Bahia said the factory had already been set up by others when Dros moved into the address.

He would not name them because he feared reprisals.