Get the inside track on the big stories from Manchester courts with our weekly newsletter A dopey criminal led police to a huge £3 million cannabis farm in a mill, and another £750,000 farm in an old bingo hall.
Chadley Smith's actions alerted officers to two vast cannabis farms in Blackley and Hyde, which were run by the same gang. Ringleader Peter Rule was involved with his brother, Bradley Rule, his father Peter Hobson and his sister's partner, Leslie Fowler. READ MORE:He was a well-liked and 'respected' dad...but he has been unmasked as drugs boss Peter Rule, 27, was found by police living in an apartment in Beetham Tower in Manchester city centre.
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