Cannabis duo jailed after running £500k Guy Ritchie-style drug bunker in West Midlands
Dramatic bodycam footage captured the moment police uncovered cannabis plants being cultivated in underground rooms beneath the site.
Two Albanian criminals have been jailed after cops uncovered a £500,000 cannabis farm hidden in underground bunkers straight out of Guy Ritchie's The Gentlemen.
Gjergivatal Pjeter, 33, of Birmingham, and Eldoh Sylaj, 31, of Maidstone, Kent, admitted being involved in producing the Class B drug after police swooped on the secret subterranean grow.
The pair were each jailed for 22 months at Warwick Crown Court on Monday.
Five people were arrested when officers raided the rural site near Wolston on August 19, but only Pjeter and Sylaj were charged.
Dramatic bodycam footage captured the moment police uncovered cannabis plants being cultivated in underground rooms beneath the site.
The hidden drugs den was accessed through a hatch cut into the floor of a shipping container, concealing the operation below ground.
The set-up mirrored the plot of Guy Ritchie's 2019 film The Gentlemen, starring Hugh Grant and Matthew McConaughey, in which drug gangs built cannabis farms beneath the estates of aristocratic landowners.
The movie later spawned a hit Netflix spin-off starring Theo James, Kaya Scodelario and Giancarlo Esposito.
A Rugby police spokesman said: "Our officers discovered a cannabis grow worth an estimated £500,000.
"The warrant turned up an underground grow not dissimilar to something from Guy Ritchie's The Gentlemen, with an entry hatch in an inconspicuous shipping container on the surface."
As well as being jailed, both defendants were ordered to pay a victim surcharge of £187. The court also ordered the destruction of the cannabis.