POLICE found a cannabis factory at a house.... after neighbours reported it being burgled.

Officers were called to Walnut Close, Laindon at about 3.45pm on December 27 after residents spotted a strange man going in to a property which they believed was empty.

Police arrived and went in to the house but discovered the man was living there.

However while they were in the house they discovered a cultivation of eight cannabis plants in a bedroom.

A 39-year-old man, of Walnut Close in Laindon was handed a police caution and the plants have been seized.