Well, they were after a pot plant! Elderly couple caught up in drugs raid after thriving shrub they bought at car boot sale turned out to be a cannabis bush



An elderly couple have been busted for growing cannabis after unknowingly buying a plant at a car boot sale.

Police who seized the bush in a drugs bust at the couple's Bedford home on Friday and said it was the biggest they had seen.



The couple were shocked to find that their carefully tended shrub was in fact a gigantic cannabis plant.



High growth: The giant cannabis plant was found in the garden of an elderly couple who had no idea what kind of plant it was Bedford Police tweeted about the plant they seized from the elderly couple

The couple bought the plant at a car boot sale, not realising what it was

They had bought the plant as a shrub at a car boot sale, without realising that is was a cannabis bush.



After the drugs raid Bedfordshire Police took to Twitter to comment their find and posted a photo of the bush growing in what looks like an ordinary suburban garden.

The tweet from Bedford Borough’s local policing team read: 'Seized today. Elderly couple bought shrub at car boot sale, tended carefully-biggest cannabis plant we had seen!!'

A spokesman said that the couple had asked the force to remove the image of the plant from the social networking site, and refused to give any further comment on the find.

She would not say if the couple would face any charges over the cannabis.