Dramatic moment Albanian drugs suspect leaps across roof in his slippers to escape police as they raid cannabis factory in sleepy village

An Albanian suspected criminal tried to leap across a roof while wearing slippers in an attempt to escape police who were raiding a residential cannabis farm. 

The 19-year-old man clambered out a first floor window to avoid West Mercia Police who were acting on a tip off. The man jumped across a gap to avoid arrest but was soon detained in a nearby garden. 

Officers recovered 60 large plants in the house in Cofton Hackett, Worcestershire which were worth an estimated £50,000. 

A further 198 smaller plants were also recovered, which could have been worth £1,000 each later this year. 

This is the moment a suspected drug gang member tried to escape from police by leaping across the roof from a house being raided in Worcestershire

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Police raided the property in the village of Cofton Hackett after receiving a tip off

Officers recovered 60 large cannabis plants which are worth almost £1,000 each

Officers seized cannabis plants along with cultivation equipment and a sophisticated electrical system.

The raid took place after neighbours raised concerns about drugs and suspicious activity in the area.

A 19-year-old Albanian man was arrested on suspicion of cultivation of cannabis.

PC Rod Hartwright, of West Mercia Police, said: ‘The warrant shows we will not tolerate drugs within our community and will continue to act on information given to us about drugs.

‘Drugs have a negative impact on our communities and can lead to other localised criminality and the harm and exploitation of vulnerable people.’