A MAN has been jailed for nine months after a cannabis factory in his flat leaked into the café below causing £600 damage.

Lukasz Wudzinski was pinned down and arrested at his home after the landlady called the police when she discovered the locks had been changed.

He pleaded guilty to production of 29 cannabis plants on June 16 last year and criminal damage by doing £600 to the café ceiling at Mac’s Sandwich Bar, Keighley Road, Ovenden, Calderdale.

Wudzinski, 39, of Grove Gardens, Ovenden, Halifax, was approached by a man and woman at a food bank who told him to make some money by allowing the grow to be set-up at the flat.

Prosecutor Jonathan Sharp told Bradford Crown Court on Monday that it was the fourth time that the café owner had to put up with the water leak from the flat above. She had previously closed her business for two days because of it.

This time, she knocked on the flat door for 90 minutes but Wudzinski didn’t answer. The landlady and a plumber were called and when it was discovered that the locks had been changed, the police attended.

Wudzinski was aggressive and refused to allow entry to the flat so he was pinned down and handcuffed.

Mr Sharp said the commercial grow would have yielded cannabis with a wholesale value of up to £18,000 and a street value of up to £30,000.

After the defendant’s prints were found on plant pots, he said he had been promised ‘a beautiful life’ to allow the farm to remain in place.

In mitigation, it was stated that Wudzinski was paid £30 a week as a gardener.

Some had suggested that he would ‘hop back to Poland’ but he had turned up at court on bail.

Judge Ahmed Nadim said Wudzinski had at first failed to attend court and had admitted his guilt after an arrest warrant was executed.

He hadn’t engaged with the probation service so there was no report.

Judge Nadim said he had no reason to believe that he would co-operate with any non-custodial alternative.