A jury is set to retire today to consider verdicts in the case of three Reading men accused of cultivating £100,000 worth of cannabis at an Oxfordshire farm.

Christopher Bridges, 29, Dino Sofroniou, 21, and Jason Warrick, 30, have all denied growing and cultivating cannabis with intent to supply.

Bridges and Sofroniou are also charged with possessing heroin and amphetamines with intent to supply.

David Stannard, 35, also of Reading, has pleaded guilty to cultivating cannabis and possesion of cannabis with intent to supply, the jury heard yesterday.

As reported in the Oxford Mail, the jury has been told that police found cannabis plants worth more than £100,000 when they carried out a raid at Manor Farm, Frilford, near Abingdon.

Paul Reid, prosecuting, said: "David Stannard was at the heart of it and he has pleaded guilty."

He said the factory was capable of making three substantial crops every year.

He added: "It is in a secluded location, down a lane with a gate at the end.

"It is a ramshackle, run-down unit, which used to be a pig centre and a nursery development."

He said anyone brought into the affair by Stannard was working with him and was a confidante of his.

He said: "Mr Bridges is an electrician. We say he lied about who instructed him to set this up.

"He said it was a man called Jason Jones. We say he was lying about that because that man was Stannard."

Mr Reid said Bridges' fingerprints appeared on electrical equipment at the factory because the defendant claimed he had done some work there a year before.

He said: "Sofroniou says he is an estate agent. He lied about his previous involvement with drugs.

"He knows what cannabis is and what it smells like."

He said Warrick's fingerprints were found on equipment at the factory.

Judge David Morton Jack was set to finish summing up today before the jury retires to consider its verdict.