POLICE have found a cannabis factory with more than 200 plants after responding to a man who fell from a drain pipe and fractured his spine.

A man was seriously injured falling while climbing down a drain pipe in Richmond Place, Brighton, where a cannabis factory was later found in a next door building on Wednesday.

A 42-year-old man, of no fixed address, is being treated for a fractured spine and wrist after falling onto a patio.

Police, alerted by a member of the public, called for an ambulance before going to a neighbouring vacant property, where workmen had entered to turn off the power and found more than 200 cannabis plants being cultivated.

The man being treated has been arrested for cannabis production.