A brothel keeper has been back in court and jailed for another 12 months for allowing premises she rented to be used as cannabis factories.

Lynn Amos-Brown, 62, was jailed for four and a half years at Canterbury Crown Court in February for brothel keeping, fraud and money laundering.

But on the day she was sentenced, the remains of a drugs factory was found in living quarters above Express Kitchens at Gabriels Hill, Maidstone.

Substantial production had been set up on the two upper floors with considerable damage caused when a room was crudely divided and holes knocked into the ceiling for air conditioning.

The electricity meter had been bypassed.

No plants were found but it was obvious they had been there and the landlord faced a £4,000 bill from EDF and a £15,000 plus repair bill for the damage.

While that was being done, he lost £10,000 in rent.

Amos-Brown, who at the time of her trial lived at High Street, Bridge, also rented a property at Rose Terrace, Faversham.

Police went in on March 9 and found 105 plants with a potential yield of 3.88kg.

Again the premises had been damaged and the meter bypassed leaving the landlord with a bill of £1,600 for repairs and loss of rent.

Street value of the cannabis was about £22,500.

Terence Woods, for Amos-Brown, said what she was effectively admitting was turning a blind eye to what was going on at the premises.

Her late son Toby was involved in cultivating cannabis and among phone and text messages in the trial was a picture of a cannabis plant which she sent to someone asking what it was.

She took over the rental of Express Kitchens from a co-defendant at her trial, Sean Butler, and she ran the shop business.

To off-set the costs she rented out the flat above, her son helping her find a tenant.

But he found her the wrong sort and she allowed the tenant to do what he did in the flat which was secured from the shop and she was unable to let the landlord in because she did not have a key.

Mr Woods said Amos-Brown was now serving a substantial sentence and urged the court not to add to the length of time she would spend behind bars.

"It was something that became out of her control because it seems the operation at Rose Terrace continued after she was sentenced."