An Albanian man found hiding in the loft of a Norwich property where a sophisticated cannabis growing operation was found is to be sentenced next month.

Denis Corri, 27, was arrested after police undertook a dawn raid of a semi-detached property on Dowson Road in Mile Cross.

Officers who forced entry on November 6 discovered three rooms of the unassuming house had been blacked out and converted into a cannabis farm including hi-tech hydroponics equipment, extraction and lighting.

Earlier this month Norwich Magistrates Court heard a total of 166 cannabis plants worth an estimated value of £150,000 were discovered.

There was also evidence of previous crops having already been harvested.

Corri, of no fixed abode who spoke through an interpreter, admitted production of cannabis and was committed to the crown court for sentence.

He is due to be sentenced on December 9.