'I wasn't a gangster, just a kid from Shropshire': how drugs gangs are exploiting lockdown
My team is seeing ever-younger children being recruited to county lines drugs trade during the pandemicEver since he was a little kid, 16-year-old Adam* loved gangster movies. The glamour of the lifestyle – the money, the cars, the respect – all appealed to him. When a gang from a nearby city expanded its drug-selling operation to his neighbourhood, it sucked him in by promising to make those dreams come true. But the reality was very different. One day Adam was robbed of drugs
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