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Trio Caged After Running 'Industrial Scale' Drugs Farm in Shopping Centre
Police seized 3,058 cannabis plants valued up to £1.8 million; three men received nearly 20 years combined prison for large-scale drug production in disused Scottish centre.
- In September 2024, three Albanian men—Elton Skenderi, Gjovalin Toma, and Eduard Daja—were jailed for running an industrial-scale cannabis farm in the former Forum shopping centre, Irvine.
- Their arrest followed a police raid triggered by a tip-off from Scottish Power due to high energy usage, uncovering over 3,000 cannabis plants across multiple units secured by barricaded doors.
- On August 6, the men admitted guilt in court for violations related to the Misuse of Drugs Act, and Daja also confessed to breaking a deportation order that had been issued following a prior cannabis conviction in Leeds.
- Judge Lord Mulholland described the case as a large-scale enterprise and handed down prison terms of five years and three months for Skenderi, six years for Toma, and six years plus an additional nine months for Daja, with the latter's sentences to be served one after the other.
- Officials highlighted the operation's scale and impact, urging public vigilance to reduce drug harm, while dismissing claims that the men were trafficking victims and affirming their accountability for large-scale drug production.
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Albanian trio ran biggest cannabis farm judge had ever seen from disused shopping centre - Daily Star
Elton Skenderi, 29, Gjovalin Toma, 31, and Eduard Daja, 39 attempted to 'flood' central Scotland with the class B drug, which they were cultivating in the former Irvine Forum shopping centre
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