large-scale 'cannabis factories' hidden in ordinary houses
Sir Stephen Lander, SOCA's chairman, warned that large-scale "cannabis factories" run by Vietnamese and Chinese criminals are springing up across the country. Home-grown: Vietnamese and Chinese criminal Gangs have set up large-scale 'cannabis factories' hidden in ordinary houses Hidden in ordinary houses, the factories are producing huge quantities of high- strength skunk cannabis on an "industrial scale". Sir Stephen told the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee: "There are wide areas of the country where this is being grown commercially. "It's not as though people are growing it in a couple of pots on their window sills." Sir Stephen also expressed concern about the growing number of migrants from outside the EU seeking to exploit lax European border controls to enter Britain. He revealed that new visa requirements for all South African visitors could be introduced because thousands of illegal immigrants are using the country as a g...