Four years ago the Times could write of Dundee – ‘People are terrified’: ruthless gangs from England flood city with drugs’ but still today BBC Scotland can only say nervously ‘new faces or accents from other towns’ as 52 vulnerable adults are ‘cuckooed’ by the same gangs in one Scottish city

On BBC Scotland today: Gillian Anderson deals specifically with cuckooing cases for the Positive Steps charity

I thought they might say it. In a harrowing account of 52 cases of vulnerable women in Dundee subjected to knives at their throats, forced drug taking, sexual abuse and many other forms of abuse and an interview with Gillian Anderson above, we heard nothing of where the abusers come from and are left to assume wrongly, from Dundee itself.

In the more than 1 000 words on this, in the online report, there is only one wee clue:

Signs might include a neighbour who has become more withdrawn, there could be additional people coming and going from their address at different times of the day and night. Also, new faces or accents from other towns.

I’ve emailed Positive Steps for the full report and asked them if they told BBC Scotland where the criminals are from – which accents from which other towns?

It would be important to know if they are local or not. It’s the BBC. Surely they’ve researched this and cannot find anything?

Well, in February 2020, The Times reported:

Organised crime gangs from England have seized control of the drug trade in Dundee, forcing police to launch a series of operations to counter them.

Cartels from Manchester have used violence and intimidation to establish and consolidate their presence in Scotland’s fourth city.

They use vulnerable young people to act as drug mules and couriers, flooding peripheral housing estates with crack cocaine. The gangs operate a “county lines” system to distribute drugs outside their own cities.

They are grooming teenagers into trafficking drugs with promises of money, friendship and status. The youngsters, many of whom are in care or have turbulent home lives, are then controlled using threats, violence and sexual abuse.

The gangs are also exploiting vulnerable adults with mental health problems or addiction issues by seizing control of their homes and using them as a base to sell and make drugs, a practice known as cuckooing.

Police Scotland confirmed that it had brought in its organised crime and counterterrorism unit to combat the groups targeting Dundee.

BBC Scotland did not cover this.

In June 2021, Dundee’s Community Safety and Public Protection Committee had:

Work has been ongoing to raise awareness of County Line and Cuckooing activities to a number of front-line services in Dundee, through the Health and Social Care Partnership and NHS. County Lines activity is the practice of English based Organised Crime Groups, travelling to Scotland to sell class A drugs, using young or vulnerable people to deliver to customers. Closely related is Cuckooing, a term indicating the act of taking over a person’s home by intimidation/coercion, exploitation or violence, to use as a safe house or accommodation for a drugs courier.

BBC Scotland did not cover this.

in October 2021 Police Scotland reported to Dundee City Council:

Two English males previously known for drugs and cuckooing offences were identified by Operation Argonite as being linked to these addresses. One of these males was arrested in relation to road traffic offences. He was subject to bail conditions not to 42 OFFICIAL OFFICIAL enter Scotland and after appearing at Court, returned to England.

BBC Scotland did not cover this.

In July 2023, the Courier reported:

BBC Scotland did not cover this.

And just one month ago, in the Daily Record:

Dad who brought £400k drugs into Scotland as county lines courier is jailed. Lukas Losinski was caught after police raided his home in Dundee last year. Lukas Losinski was responsible for bringing drugs worth nearly £400,000 north of the border during a series of runs from Blackburn in England.

BBC Scotland did not cover this.

Everybody else knows these are English gangs terrorising Scotland. Everybody else can say it but the British Broadcasting Corporation’s Scotland branch dare not say ‘English’ or even name the cities, in England.

Terror Together?

Sources:

chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.dundeecity.gov.uk/reports/reports/26-2021.pdf

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/dad-who-brought-400k-drugs-33194637

4 thoughts on “Four years ago the Times could write of Dundee – ‘People are terrified’: ruthless gangs from England flood city with drugs’ but still today BBC Scotland can only say nervously ‘new faces or accents from other towns’ as 52 vulnerable adults are ‘cuckooed’ by the same gangs in one Scottish city

  1. Time our Borders were CLOSED to these FOREIGN THUGS and criminal lowlife.

    It’s way past ASKING PERMISSION OF THE FOREIGNERS,

    it’s time to

    Claim and Restore every power that Scotland should have at our disposal,

    TO

    Close Borders

    Protect ALL Scots

    from the EVIL intent of FOREIGN CRIMINAL GANGS

    (probably in the pay of their English Masters, to cause mayhem in Scotland)

    and

    FOREIGN ENGLISH COLONIALIST DICTATORS

    After waiting for years in belief and hope, for the SNP to act,

    to RESTORE OUR NATION

    I’ve given up on that.

    We Scots are who will

    RESTORE SCOTLAND’S POWERS

    as OUR

    Reclaimed and Restored Independent Nation of Scotland.

    The English mouthpiece, State Broadcaster

    ebc/aka bbc will NOT be permitted a Broadcasting Licence in Scotland, not even the “get around ‘Third Party’ variety”!

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  2. I will be interested to see if you get a reply re the report.If it finds that If there is even a mention of the words ‘English’ or ‘England’ in the report then it’s a slam dunk of BBC Scotland being biased by deliberate omission.

    Is BBC Scotland prepared to put peoples lives at risk to preserve the union?

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  3. This tells you there is an official policy. One has to ask the next question is police Scotland involved in looking the other way to allow the spread of drugs.

    This would tie in with uk policy of non cooperation with Scottish drug management policy and unionist and BBC fixation with drug deaths.

    A long term plan to give Scotland a drug problem.

    Given the number of senior officers that are english or unionist Ulster at least one eyebrow has to go up.

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