A MAN is due in court today after police discovered 6,000 cannabis plants in Colchester. 

Witnesses reported seeing a number of police vehicles outside the property yesterday afternoon.

A man is due in court today charged with cultivation of cannabis.

It comes after officers discovered more than 6,000 cannabis plants with an estimated value of more than £2 million in a property in Hythe Station Road, Colchester, yesterday.

Rition Mone, 25, of Hythe Station Road, Colchester is due to appear in Colchester Magistrates’ Court this morning.