Amazed police find a FOREST of cannabis the size of a football pitch with plants towering over officers growing in south London

• Officers came across tall plants in Kingston upon Thames just a few streets away from university halls on Thursday
• Discovery was made after a member of the public said they had seen a small number of the plants in the area 
• Images of dozens of marijuana plants were posted on Twitter by officers and the local neighbourhood watch group

By Lydia Willgress for MailOnline

These are the spectacular images of a ‘cannabis forest’ the size of a football pitch discovered by police in south west London.

Officers came across around 150 of the tall plants in Kingston upon Thames just a few streets away from university halls of residence and a sixth-form college on Thursday morning.

Images of marijuana were posted on Twitter by officers, with the photographs showing some of the class B plants standing at more than 6ft tall.