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English judge to Albanians caught in 'barn houses': It's a story I hear every week, you pay off your debts while the traffickers profit
2025-05-18 17:54:29 / AKTUALITET
Two Albanian workers arrested at a bar in the UK have been sentenced to prison by the court.
Klevis Kurti and Eljohn Mozhika, both 22, tended a cannabis plant population of around 900 in a 'weed house' in Eastbourne. They watered and tended the plants, turning the lights on and off at different times to avoid arousing suspicion.
Judge Martin Huseyin told the two Albanians that they are likely to be deported after serving at least 40% of a 14-month prison sentence.
The 'bar' on Maple Street was raided by a police tactical unit on February 19 this year. Judge Huseyin described the operation as a very large-scale commercial activity and said the two Albanians were clearly part of something much bigger.
Both lived in miserable conditions in that industrial unit and had not received any payment.
"According to the evidence, neither of you did anything more than simple, lower-level jobs. You are both like small wheels in a very large machine," the judge said.
The court heard that it was likely that the two Albanians were working to pay off debts of between £3,000 and £5,000 owed to traffickers who had brought them to Britain in small boats.
The judge said both had given common stories of coming from poverty and trying to send money home for family medical expenses, local media reported . “It is a story we hear week after week in this court. It is very likely that you were paying off the illegal traffickers who brought you to the UK. This reinforces my belief that there was a degree of exploitation. You were recruited, no doubt, to come to the UK in the hope of improving your poor life. I have no doubt you expected to benefit financially, but you most likely did not receive anything before you were arrested. Others made huge sums of money from the 25-75kg of cannabis that this country could produce per year. It was a sophisticated operation with all the equipment necessary for a successful production unit,” the judge said.
Police found 470 plants in that industrial unit. Experts said they could produce three crops a year and should be considered a growth of at least 900 plants in total.
The plants were brought to the unit to be grown and then dried and packaged elsewhere, Lewes Crown Court heard. The judge ordered the drugs and equipment to be destroyed.
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