Professor John Robertson OBA

BBC Scotland today with a drug gang killing in Scotland included. It would better read:

Despite their ongoing refusal to headline these County Lines gangs, all based in English cities, causing devastation across Scotland and impeding the fall in drug deaths, with new, more powerful, cheaper, drugs backed up by extreme violence, as in this case, this is a breakthrough if you read the full text:

A drug dealer and two accomplices who killed a woman and endangered the life of her boyfriend in a car attack in Falkirk have each been jailed for 11 years.

Arslan Sajid, 24, drove a Mercedes which hit the back of a car driven by Amy Rose Wilson, 27, in New Carron Road in July 2023.

Sajid and associates Andrew Gregoire, 29, and Anthony Davidson, 32, were originally charged with murder, but found guilty of the lesser charge of culpable homicide.

Sentencing the men, Judge Lady Drummond said Ms Wilson had been “much loved” and her death was overwhelming to her family.

The trial at the High Court in Edinburgh heard that Sajid pursued the car with Ms Wilson and her partner Ryan Paterson following a row over a drug deal.

Sajid and his accomplices, all from London, had travelled from Essex with 10kg (22lb) of cannabis to sell to a Glasgow dealer.

Six statements down but there it is, a first time ever that BBC Scotland have said where these criminals have travelled from, 6 years after the first recorded case.

Why does it matter where these gangs come from? This:

The English Connection keeping Scotland’s drug deaths high

300 years in jail for English County Lines drug gang members who had ‘their eye on Scotland’ and who English media link to stubborn drug deaths statistics in Scotland, is NOT news in Scotland it seems – why?