Timothy Bradley, of Prenton near Birkenhead, installed the cameras to monitor the operation, but the footage was found by police
A sophisticated CCTV system installed to monitor cannabis growing inside a Rhyl bungalow helped police identify who was responsible.
Police acting on a tip-off raided the premises, checked the film, and saw footage of the bungalow owner Timothy Bradley tending the plants.
Bradley, 52, claimed that he had rented the property out and said his tenant was responsible.
He said the name and number of his tenant was on his mobile phone, but Mold Crown Court heard he had created the contact on his phone after the police raid in a bid to support his false story.
The number given was not in use.
Bradley, of Statham Road, Prenton near Birkenhead, admitted cannabis production and abstracting electricity between February and November 2015, and was jailed for a total of 27 months today.
Judge Tracey Lloyd-Clarke, at an earlier hearing at Caernarfon , rejected his basis of plea that his tenant was responsible and that he had then been threatened not to tell the police.
She told him he had a significant operational role and was “motivated by financial advantage”.
Prosecuting barrister Duncan Bould said the 67 plants found in two growing areas within the bungalow were said to have a potential yield of up to £57,000.
Defending barrister Andrew McInnes said his client suffered ill health and helped care for his 84-year-old mother.
He was the only contact his mother had because his two daughters lived abroad, one in Tenerife and the other in Australia.
It was his case that he had rented the property out and that it was his tenant who was responsible.
The judge said the cannabis grow was monitored by a CCTV system linked to the internet and the defendant was found to be the subscriber.
Officers viewed the CCTV footage and found the defendant tending the plants and adjusting the CCTV cameras.
The defendant initially denied it was himself in the film then changed his story and said that it was – but that he had been threatened by his tenant not to tell the police.
He continued to deny that he had anything to do with the cannabis found growing at the bungalow he owned.
But a police investigation showed that he had visited North Wales on eight days between October 16 and November 21, and his vehicle had been seen entering North Wales on the day he was filmed on the CCTV at the bungalow.
His DNA had been found on latex gloves found at the premises.
An investigation under the Proceeds of Crime Act will now take place.
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