Three slaves locked in a drugs farm in Lincolnshire for two months with only grains of rice to eat

THREE slaves were locked inside a secret drugs farm with only grains of rice to eat.

The Vietnamese men had been driven from London to Lincolnshire with the promise of a job.

But gangsters made them tend a huge cannabis farm hidden in a warehouse — threating to beat them if they refused. The three were found in a police raid in Scunthorpe.

Humberside Police who rescued the three men trapped in the warehouse discovered 15,000 cannabis plants which took almost a week to remove.

One of the men, had been trapped inside the warehouse for two months with ruthless gangmasters screwing the doors shut to stop him escaping.

He’d been joined by the other two men, aged 30 and 46, with just enough food, mainly rice and liquids to survive.

His solicitor advocate explains: “He came into this country on his own passport on a visitor’s visa but ended up being detained in an immigration detention centre.”

“When he was released from there, he had got no means of support so somebody in London offered him a job and that’s how he was brought to Scunthorpe in the middle of the night and was locked in.”

The slaves were under orders to tend and cultivate the huge cannabis farm hidden inside.

The shocking case emerged after a hearing at Grimsby Crown Court which heard about the July 28th raid on the £4m cannabis factory, thought to be the largest found in northern Lincolnshire.

On Thursday, they were cleared of producing cannabis after a court in Grimsby heard they were people-trafficking victims.

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