The officers had been called to the property in Kendall Crescent, Cutteslowe, for unrelated reasons. When they arrived, they saw two men flee the scene
Inside the home, six of the eight rooms had been given over to growing commercial quantities of class B drug cannabis.
A bathtub had been filled with liquid fertiliser. Living quarters for two people were set up in an annexe.
The 230 ‘viable’ plants were said by a Thames Valley Police drugs expert to have a wholesale value of £55,000 and a potential street value of around £140,000.
Earlier this week, Gentian Haroku was jailed at Oxford Crown Court for six months after he admitted tending the plants.
The 33-year-old, who was ordered to work at the farm to pay off a £20,000 debt to the gang that trafficked him to the UK from his native Albania, was linked to the cannabis farm by fingerprints and DNA lifted from the property.
