A MAN has appeared in court charged with growing cannabis at a former funeral parlour.

Ali Kasa, 27, is accused of producing the class B drug at the former Co-op undertakers on Limekiln Road in the Abersychan area of Pontypool.

The prosecution claims he did so between January 1 and March 4.

Kasa, of no fixed abode, appeared before Judge Lucy Crowther at Cardiff Crown Court.

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The defendant’s case was adjourned until later this week after an administrative error meant no Albanian interpreter had been booked for him.

He was remanded in custody.