A widower who sold his home to HS2 shortly after his wife died from pancreatic cancer has discovered it was turned into a cannabis farm.
Alan Wilkinson, 85, bought Ravenswood in the late 1970s and settled there with his wife Gillian.
The couple enjoyed the four-bedroomed property, adding a swimming pool and new kitchen to it, for roughly four decades before deciding to sell in the wake of HS2 plans.
By 2019 bosses at HS2 planned to build a tunnel underneath Whitmore Heath in Staffordshire, the hillside village where the property lay.
Mr and Mrs Wilkinson were considering moving to a smaller home at the time, and when they learnt of the proposed developments entered negotiations to sell up.
