Police officer says county lines gang members who ‘have been through the justice system in England’ target vulnerable women in Highlands but BBC Scotland reporter does not or cannot hear that last word

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BBC Highlands and Islands have the above and:

County lines gangs are forcing vulnerable women into joining networks supplying crack cocaine and heroin to the Highlands and Islands, a senior detective has warned. Det Ch Insp Craig Still said criminal groups based in major UK cities were sending associates north to co-ordinate drug dealing.

He told BBC Scotland‘s Scotcast that the suspects were often young men known for violent offences in their home cities.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy0xdxdl40o

Funnily enough, Det Ch Insp Still seems to have said something a wee bit different, more geographically precise, to the ears of the Daily Record reporter listening to the same interview:

They tend to be individuals who have been through the justice system IN ENGLAND, may have convictions for violence. They may have gang connections and they may regularly be in possession of weapons.”

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/gangsters-sending-teen-drug-dealers-to-terrorise-highlands-as-overdose-deaths-rise/ar-AA1MZ4Mx?ocid=BingNewsSerp

Funny that, eh? It’s almost as if BBC Scotland have an agenda.

6 thoughts on “Police officer says county lines gang members who ‘have been through the justice system in England’ target vulnerable women in Highlands but BBC Scotland reporter does not or cannot hear that last word”

  1. A few days ago BBC Scotland reported that three or four local people in Auchinleck had been jailed for periods of more than a year for their participation in riotous behaviour towards residents in a house in the area.

    Towards the end of the report there is a deliberately vague statement that those in the house were from elsewhere. It makes no mention of drug dealing and intimidation and the place of origin of those people.

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    2. It was as continuation of BBC Scotland’s reporting of the original incident, don’t mention English County Lines drug gangs…

      The organisers were inevitably going to be prosecuted because of the damage done and public unrest, but I strongly suspect they will get the earliest parole possible and be welcomed home as heroes…

      It’s a sad indictment of the law in some respects, that it’s so difficult to build a case against those causing the trouble before local frustration boils over…

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