Don't miss out on the big stories from Manchester's courts with our weekly newsletter A 'desperate' illegal immigrant was told he'd be killed unless he worked as a 'gardener' at a cannabis farm in Longsight.
Oretsis Cobo, 29, had been living in the farm which had been set up in a terraced house, for about six weeks before police discovered it.
Cobo later told officers he'd been taken to the house on Eston Street in a van after being sent a 'threatening letter'. READ MORE : Shots fired at man in parked car in south Manchester He was told to water and feed the cannabis plants and warned if he failed to comply 'he would be killed', Manchester Crown Court heard.
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