A WELSH junior football coach who ran a 'highly sophisticated' cannabis factory in a Coleford cottage has been jailed for six years.

Mark Holliday, 43, who was said by his lawyer to be a friend of famous sporting personalities, had denied being involved in the cultivation of more than 1,000 cannabis plants in Pingry House but was convicted by a jury.

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