Court Reporter
Daniel Palmer
- Credit: DC Police
A farmer who buried a massive cannabis factory beneath his barn has been ordered to sell some of his land to repay his ill-gotten gains.
Daniel Palmer set up the underground operation on his family’s farm near Okehampton with the help of a professional grower who installed high tech systems.
He was jailed after police unearthed the five interlinked shipping containers hidden beneath the concrete floor at Easter Hall Park, Petrockstowe in February 2017.
The system was capable of producing hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of drugs every year and police recovered more than a kilogram of freshly harvested skunk cannabis in empty water butts.