A SICK man who tended a large cannabis crop in a flat just yards from a police station was trying to earn money to pay for his funeral, a court heard.
Heart attack victim Roy Alderton, aged 45, and his stepson Lee Bunker, aged 30, watered and looked after 145 plants worth £33,000, a court heard.
Police caught them red-handed when they raided a fourth-floor flat in Tavistock Place, close to Charles Cross police station.
But the man who rented the rooms and ran the operation has disappeared,...
