Pigeons keeping warm in cold weather lead police to cannabis farm

PIGEONS keeping warm during the winter months in North West England have lead police to cannabis crop inside a house.

My Saturday: Tony Cassar. Girl the pigeon who came one day and now follows Tony around his house. Picture- Nicole Cleary

A CANNABIS farm was discovered by cops who saw hundreds of pigeons huddled on the roof using heat from growing lamps to keep warm.

Police based at a station just yards from the house became suspicious when the birds cosied up there in the winter months.

They also noticed it was the only roof in the area without frost on it.

Officers organised a raid and found 14 cannabis plants, capable of producing up to $A2500 worth of the Class B every ten weeks.

Cops believe the heat from lamps used to grow dope acted like a radiator in Newton-le-Willows, Merseyside.

“Police became suspicious on the first frosty morning of the winter about ten days ago,” a source told The Sun.

“The roof was covered with about 300 pigeons all keeping warm. They’ve all moved on now though.

“It seems obvious when you think about it. It’s like the criminals were waving a sign saying they were growing cannabis. The birds blew their cover.”

It comes as 1.4 tons of cocaine disguised as wooden pallets was seized in Valencia, Spain. Twelve were arrested, including in Britain.

The drug has previously been found inside a crockery set, a wig, a plaster cast encasing a man’s broken leg and breast implants.

This article originally appeared on The Sun.