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By Professor John Robertson OBA, former Faculty Research Ethics Chair, UWS
From BBC London in May 2019:
Three county lines drug dealers who used vulnerable teenagers as runners in a coastal city have been jailed in a “landmark case”. Glodi Wabelua, Dean Alford and Michael Karemera, all 25, recruited six youths to traffic crack cocaine and heroin to Portsmouth in 2013 and 2014.
The victims were used to carry drugs to Hampshire and money back to London. It is believed the three are the first to be charged under the Modern Slavery Act in relation to county lines.
Though widely reported across the media at the time, in 2019, you might understand why BBC Scotland did not cover it then but, when they heard of this today, only covered by the Aberdeen-based P&J, you might think as a tax-payer-funded news agency with a Royal Charter to inform and to educate, they might want to tell you about it, so that you can be on the lookout for comparable behaviour, now estimated by Police Scotland to affect around 400 homes across Scotland:
The ironically-named Alford, is getting no coverage at all, as far as I can see, on BBC Scotland, BBC Scotland North East, STV, the Herald or in the Scotsman.
Why not? You know why by now. It looks bad for the Union and some researcher might even find that Scotland’s drug deaths, a topic beloved by many journalists, are being kept high by this plague from south of the border.
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