A 28-year-old man has been sentenced to four months in prison for the cultivation of a Class B drug in Great Yarmouth.

Adriatik Vata, of no fixed abode, was arrested on June 30 after police were called to a property on Nelson Road Central and discovered around 55 cannabis plants.

After Vata's original court hearing was adjourned, he pled guilty at Norwich Magistrates' Court on August 3.

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He was sentenced to four months in prison and ordered to pay £85 in costs and a £154 victim surcharge.

Vata had been arrested at the property alongside a man and a woman in their 40s and a man in his 30s.

Police had been called to reports of a burglary at a property in Nelson Road Central.

They subsequently discovered around 55 cannabis plants after entering the property.

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The other people who were arrested in connection to the incident and taken to Great Yarmouth Police Investigation Centre for questioning have since been released under investigation.