Professor John Robertson OBA

Thanks to Graham for these three alerts below and this comment:

So that’s THREE more cases from the P&J over a couple of days, on top of the Scouse Jack case.

July 11, two days ago and the Aberdeen-based P&J has the above explicit linking of the local drugs supply to England.

Two days before that and the supply is clearly identified as being from large English cities. Does anyone believe the flow is going the other way?

On the same day, the P&J illustrates how vulnerable locals are being ‘cuckooed’ and the judge clearly knows about it too judging by the sentence.

Surely BBC Scotland, BBC Scotland NE at least, will be informing folk of this plague terrorising their communities?

A search finds this from BBC Scotland:

‘County lines’: Aberdeenshire, Perthshire and Highlands targeted by drugs gangs – Rural communities in the Highlands, Aberdeenshire and Perthshire are being targeted by gangs using school children to sell class A drugs. Dealers based mainly in London and Merseyside use youngsters to move heroin and crack cocaine from major cities to smaller locations.

in October 2019, nearly six years ago, and nothing since!

Why have they gone quiet on a crime wave that has since swelled to huge proportions?

In June 2024, STV even had this Aberdeenshire report:

Heroin worth £9,000 seized and man charged in county lines operation and mentions: Searches were carried out at five properties across Aberdeen, Liverpool and Tarves, Aberdeenshire, in a joint operation between Police Scotland and Merseyside Police.

Tarves, population just over 1 000! Now that’s ‘tentacles.’

Across England and Wales and as far north as Cumbria, the BBC makes no bones about this plague and its origins in English cities but BBC Scotland will not go there. Their last and only use of ‘county lines’ in a headline was on 27 May 2021, FOUR YEARS AGO, regarding drug pushers in Dingwall (!) but, in the text, makes no reference to any English city nor to England. You really have to ask why are they not reporting on a serious and deadly threat to the lives of drug users, in every corner of Scotland, contrary to their own love of Scotland’s drug deaths reporting and of its dramatization in the series Top Boy.