A CANNABIS farmer has admitted tending to a grow with an estimated value of £450,000.

The cannabis farm was rumbled when officers from Cheshire Police carried out the raid at an address on Ludlow Close in Padgate.

A warrant was executed at around 8.45am on Tuesday, June 4.

Once inside, officers recovered 453 cannabis plants, with these given an estimated value of around £450,000.

A suspect was arrested and subsequently charged with illegally abstracting electricity and cultivating cannabis.

Francesco Vrapi appeared before Chester Magistrates' Court two days later for a plea hearing in relation to the charges.

The former alleged that, between March 1 and June 4, 2024, in Warrington, he dishonestly used a quantity of electricity of an unknown value without due authority.

The latter charge alleged that the 31-year-old, of no fixed abode, cultivated 453 cannabis plants in Warrington between the same dates.

Vrapi indicated guilty pleas to both charges, with magistrates committing the case to Liverpool Crown Court for sentencing.

The defendant will next appear before Liverpool Crown Court on July 11 for sentence, and he has been remanded in custody until this date.