Hundreds of cannabis plants found in house

The property in Rotherham was searched after people reported a man acting suspiciously outside (stock image)

Hundreds of cannabis plants worth more than £400,000 have been seized from a house in South Yorkshire.

Police were called to Psalters Lane in Ferham, Rotherham, on Thursday after a man was reported to be acting suspiciously outside an address.

The door of the property had been forced open, South Yorkshire Police said, with more than 400 plants found to be growing across the first floor and the loft.

It is thought electricity being used inside the house had been bypassed, the force said, with the plants seized and later destroyed.

The man had earlier been confronted by a neighbour and left the scene, police said, with investigations continuing.

Insp John Crapper, of South Yorkshire Police, described illegal drugs as a "scourge on our societies".

He said: "Cannabis is not a harmless drug - it funds criminality which wreaks misery on our local communities and this needs to stop."

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