POLICE have released new images from inside the drugs factory which was raided in Newtown.

Officers from Dyfed-Powys Police descended on the former industrial unit on Stone Street and discovered a ‘large-scale’ cannabis growing operation with an estimated street value of more than £1 million.

And this exclusive picture reveals the scale of the growing operation in the former car garage on the East of Newtown, with plants arranged in rows wedged in between lighting systems and pipework to filter air and irrigation through the plantation.

The police said: “Dyfed-Powys Police officers uncovered a large-scale cannabis factory with a potential street value of around one million pounds in Newtown. Police carried out a warrant at an address in Stone Street during the early hours of Saturday morning (January 12), where a significant number of plants were found.

“Officers estimated there were around 1,600 plants at the address, with a potential street value of one million pounds."