An elderly couple who like to keep the heating on at home were left ‘shaking in fear’ when police burst into their home searching for a cannabis farm – after a thermal camera on a helicopter wrongly identified it as a drugs den.
Pensioners Barry and Mavis Lovelock were finishing their breakfast when the ‘terrifying’ raid took place.
Nine officers stormed in because a helicopter camera had mistakenly identified their toasty terrace home as a potential cannabis grow.
But after charging upstairs looking for cannabis plants and the strong lamps used to grow them, the sheepish officers came back down empty-handed after quickly concluding their tip-off had been ‘not fully accurate’.
The heat signature on the couple’s roof had instead been caused by their two gas fires, which they keep on around-the-clock in the colder months.
Leicestershire Police has now apologised. They said another raid on a separate property in the street in Newfoundpool, Leicester, had found a large cannabis farm,…