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Drug dealer jailed after hiding secret cannabis farm behind a living room cupboard door

Marius Dardha (right), who was caught fleeing out the back of the Riverbank Way house when officers raided it on 4 August, was sentenced at Canterbury Crown Court on 20 October.
Marius Dardha (right), who was caught fleeing out the back of the Riverbank Way house when officers raided it on 4 August, was sentenced at Canterbury Crown Court on 20 October.

Marius Dardha, a 33-year-old Albanian national of no fixed address, has been jailed for 16 months after police found a grow room he had hidden behind false walls in an Ashford house, reachable only by squeezing through a living room sideboard cupboard. Officers investigating serious organised crime raided the Riverbank Way property on 4 August.

Photos and videos on Dardha's phone traced his role supplying the class B drug back to September 2025

Bypassed electrics 'could have posed a serious safety risk for the neighbours', warned DC Heather Walkden

'The only door he will now see will be the one to a prison cell,' Walkden said

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