A man who rigged his house with “Home Alone-style” booby traps, including a flamethrower and tripwires, to protect his drugs enterprise has been jailed.
Ian Claughton, 60, “heavily fortified” three properties in Grimethorpe, Barnsley, with fishing wire, adapted crow-scarers and home-made pipe bombs to protect his cannabis growing operation.
Claughton and his ex-wife Lesley, 59, who “assisted and encouraged” his criminality, were found guilty of drug and firearms offences following a trial at Doncaster Crown Court in November.
At Sheffield Crown Court on Tuesday, Ian Claughton was sentenced to seven years in jail, while Lesley was handed a 21-month sentence, suspended for two years.