West Midlands ‘complex county lines’ gang using children to sell drugs from ‘trap houses’ into and across Scotland

From The Express & Star, yesterday:

Members of ‘complex’ County Lines gang who sent children to ‘trap houses’ to deal drugs are jailed. A drugs gang who recruited children to sell crack and heroin have been jailed for 30 years. After cornering the Wolverhampton and Stafford drugs market the gang opened up new drug lines in Corby, Northamptonshire and as far as Scotland.

Brian Asante, 23, from Canberra Drive, Stafford, would threaten and bribe vulnerable children to sell drugs for him in “trap houses” [cuckooing] in towns, leaving them vulnerable to attack from rival drug dealers.1

How do these children manage to get the drugs past traffic and other police into Scotland?

Coercive internal concealment is one element increasingly common in County Lines activity. It involves drugs being moved from one place to another (or stored for a longer duration) hidden in body cavities, commonly the rectum or vagina, to avoid detection. Criminal groups use threats, physical violence, and humiliation to coerce children or vulnerable adults into inserting drugs in their bodies. These processes are sometimes filmed, as a means of coercive control.2

How many county lines ‘trap houses’ based on cuckooing and run by English gangs are estimated by Police Scotland to be in parts of Scotland?

373 addresses believed to be used for the purposes of cuckooing were also visited.3

Are Scotland’s MSM keeping us informed on this plague?

BBC Scotland has only ever mentioned the term ‘County Lines’, in the headline to a story, twice, in 2019 and 2021 and never mentions that the flow of drugs is from English cities into Scotland. A BBC UK report in March 2024, mentions Scottish towns but does not use the term nor does it locate the gangs in English cities, as is the case, exclusively.

A quick Google search for ‘BBC Scotland County Lines’ and ‘STV County Lines’ is conclusive. The above table reveals clearly BBC Scotland’s unique aversion to reporting on this plague of cheap drugs, extreme violence, child abuse, prostitution and people trafficking in around 60 towns and villages across Scotland.

BBC Scotland is shamefully putting the interests of the Union ahead of the people of Scotland.

Sources:

  1. https://www.expressandstar.com/news/crime/2024/10/19/county-lines-gang-who-sent-children-to-trap-houses-to-deal-drugs-jailed/
  2. https://www.oscb.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/nhs-Coercive-Internal-Concealment-Rapid-Read.pdf

6 thoughts on “West Midlands ‘complex county lines’ gang using children to sell drugs from ‘trap houses’ into and across Scotland

  1. So the BBC is complicit, why would the BBC seek to cover up english county line gangs feeding drugs into scotland while at the same time decrying the Scottish gov for not doing enough

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    1. Why indeed. It’s the Brit state, they are experts at this sort of tactic to demonise and undermine political parties they want out of the picture. All of the media’s negative reporting, leaving out majorly important facts, is to brainwash people into believing it’s the Scottish government to blame, so make sure to vote for anyone but, and to get an English HQ’d party into power at Holyrood in 2026 is the priority.

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  2. WHY are English police IGNORING DRUG GANGS

    is it because these gangs are dealing in Scotland

    SO NO ENGLISH CHILDREN OR WOMANARE NOT BEING ATTACKED.

    would not surprise EH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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