A MAN who grew cannabis in a barn has been jailed for a year.

David Woodhouse, 40, hobbled into the dock at York Crown Court on crutches to learn his fate for working at a “professional” drugs factory hidden in a South Duffield barn.

Police discovered the crop of skunk cannabis plants with a wholesale value of at least £8,000.

Woodhouse should have been sentenced in January, but after hearing he was awaiting an operation for a leg tendon problem that had caused him three years of pain, the Recorder of York, Judge Stephen Ashurst, delayed the hearing for him to go into surgery.

Woodhouse, of Cliffe-cum-Lund, had denied producing cannabis, but was convicted by a York jury.

Mr Semple said Woodhouse still did not accept his guilt.