Two housemates convicted of laundering cash from a lucrative cannabis growing operation have been jailed.
Barney Jones (25) was sentenced to three years imprisonment and Tracy Gormley (46) to two-and-a-half.
Leicester Crown Court heard that the pair were arrested after the police raided their home in Cornwall Place, Melton.
Officers discovered an upstairs bedroom was converted into a growing room, with 40 plants, in September 2011.
They were capable of producing two kilos of the class B drug, worth up to £16,500. The electricity supply was by-passed.
Jones admitted producing cannabis, on the basis he was under pressure from drug dealers to whom he owed £1,800.
Gormley, the owner of the house, had denied producing cannabis between January and September 2011, but was convicted by a jury.
Both were convicted, at the recent Leicester Crown Court trial, of four counts of converting criminal property.
The charge related to Gormley's bank accounts, into which £38,000 of unaccounted cash was deposited over a nine-month period.
Sentencing the pair, Judge Ebraham Mooncey told them: "Your attempts to fool the jury didn't work.
"Jones, you were the main mover as far as production was involved. You were expecting to make significant money.
"Gormley, you were guilty of looking after the money and benefiting from it. Custody is inevitable because of the level of activity and the period of time."
In mitigation, the court heard that Jones maintained the account he gave to the jury.
Gormley, a support worker for a housing association, lost her job because of the offences and was said to be genuinely remorseful.
Gormley was said to be concerned about the "catastrophic effect" her incarceration would have on her mother and son.
During the trial, Gary Short, prosecuting, had told the jury: "They were in it together. The business involved them growing the plants, harvesting them, selling the crop and banking the profits."
A second property owned by Gormley, in Ambleside Way, Melton, had cannabis-growing equipment in the attic, but no illegal plants were found.
