Professor John Robertson OBA
Thanks, once more to Graham for alerting us to this.
The above from the P&J, is just the latest in a trail of reports of English County Lines drug gangs bringing a plague of drug abuse, deaths and extreme violence, based on Police Scotland estimates, to around 50 locations in Scotland.
In just one day in April 2025, Aberdeen’s P&J had two reports of English drug gangs occupying homes in the city to sell new more powerful low cost drugs and, in so doing keep drug deaths high, despite the efforts of the SNP Government which has oversight of a world-leading opium overdose reversal drug programme (Naloxone) and a drug treatment programme running a a target-busting 95%+ treated within three weeks.
In August 2021, BBC NE, Orkney & Shetland revealed the underlying and horrific nature of these drug dealers but were careful to avoid telling us that they came from England:
BBC Scotland have never mentioned the word ‘English’ in their reports of drug gangs nor mentioned any English city. They did report the above P&J cases, but in these words:
Two men who carried out a violent attack on a disabled man in Peterhead have each been jailed for more than six years. Jack Cleary, 20, tipped the man from his wheelchair and stabbed him in the leg with a knife before pouring salt in the wound in May 2022.
Ewan Hardie, 52, joined Cleary for a later second assault on the victim. The men admitted assault to the danger of life. Cleary was jailed for six years and eight months at the High Court in Edinburgh, and Hardie received six years and nine months. Cleary was 18 when he threatened to stab his 52-year-old victim in the eyes with hypodermic syringes and struck him with a baseball bat as he lay on the floor of a flat.
He robbed him of a mobile phone, bank card and medication, but returned with Hardie to inflict further violence. During the follow-up attack the victim was pulled from his wheelchair and dragged along the ground with a belt around his neck until he blacked out.
Defence counsel Tony Lenehan KC said Cleary was a young man who had become “enmeshed in the drugs underworld and was guided by others”. He said: “He behaved in a dreadful manner. There is no question about that. There is remorse shown.”
Solicitor advocate Jim Stephenson for Hardie, who has 150 previous convictions, said: “He has been blighted by drink and drugs. He fully understands he will receive a custodial sentence for this matter.” Judge Lord Armstrong said “extreme violence” was used and it had “devastating and ongoing long-term negative consequences”.
Anything missing? Just the word ‘English.’ Not in the public interest?
In August 2025, Academic researchers confirmed that County Lines gangs plaguing Scottish towns and villages, fuelling drug deaths, is an exclusively English phenomenon:
Criminologist Ross Deuchar presents insights from his research into Scottish gang culture, and makes the case for the courts to apply supportive, problem-solving approaches to the teenagers and young adults affected.
While in England young people are sent out from their own towns with drugs to be sold in provincial markets (known as ‘County Lines’ dealing; see Harding, 2020), the young men I interviewed tended to suggest that drugs are most commonly collected from afar before being brought back to Scotland and sold within or around the home town, village or city.
This finding reinforces the position held here, for years now, but evaded in MSM, that Scotland’s drug problems are being exacerbated by an influx of cheap and more powerful drugs into parts of the country, even small villages, by drug gangs employing new levels of violence and based entirely in English cities.
Further evidence from the Liverpool Echo in November 2022:
A series of raids across Scotland last week highlighted the continuing focus of Merseyside’s organised crime groups on the drugs market north of the border. Last week officers from Merseyside Police teamed up with Police Scotland for raids in Peterhead, Aberdeen and in Knowsley. On Wednesday, November 2, Police Scotland raided an address in Peterhead where cocaine and heroin were recovered and a man and woman arrested.
Debate has been raging north of the border over how to handle drug-related deaths, which have remained high for a number of years and show little sign of significantly reducing. Scotland still has the highest number of drug deaths in Europe. In 2021, 1,295 deaths were linked to illicit drugs in Scotland, albeit down from 1,411 in 2020 which represented the highest number on record.
Liverpool based street gangs do not appear to have been phased by the misery, death and addiction on the streets of Glasgow and other Scottish cities and towns, however. In 2018, a National Crime Agency (NCA) annual strategic assessment said: “Significant serious organised crime connections exist between Scotland and the north west of England, predominantly Merseyside. https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/liverpool-drugs-gangs-still-eye-25476347
Was any of that reported by BBC Scotland, STV? I can find nothing.
The Liverpool Echo is making a clear causal connection between Liverpool drug gangs, the flood of cheap, more powerful, drugs into Scotland and our still far too high drug deaths. Why are Scotland’s media ignoring that?
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BRITISH POLICE NOT INTERESTED IN STOPPING THESE GANGS
GLAD THEY ARE GETTING INTO SCOTLAND WITH NO PUNISHMENT
IS THAT SCOTTISH OR ENGLISH FAULTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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English police will be delighted to have these English drugs gangs off their hands so they can arrest peaceful protesters instead.
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UK Government refusing to pay £26m bill for Donald Trump’s Scotland visit
Borrowing – – was £20.2bn in September
Just a thought the UK borrows this so I suppose Scotland will have to pay a share for this.
Lets get out of this corrupt Union now.
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Of course not, and probably not just B.B.C Scotland, but most of the print media. I probably sound like a conspiracy theorist, but I believe most of these businesses/organisations have been subverted by a dark British State, and been told in no uncertain terms that their future wellbeing depends on them doing as they are told. And that is of course to preserve the Union at all costs. Again, nothing in writing , but if they don’t toe the line, there will be consequences, none pleasant. If that means both lying, and news by omission, then so be it. That’s the price they they have to pay, but hey, there will probably be a few so-called honours conferred upon the high heid yins for doing their duty. This is never going to change, even with Independence. We will still be told, or not told depending on the circumstances, by these wholly corrupt people, who care not one jot for the people of Scotland, only in furthering their own interests. And apart from the outside interests, there are plenty of traitors amongst us, in plain view, who will side with them, determined to betray their ain folk.
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I’m even more of a conspiracy theorist. In Latin American countries, the CIA et al plant drugs gangs into those countries to create havoc, instil fear and orchestrate violence in communities etc in order to control the people and also oust any more socialist leaning governments that might just look after their own people and use their own resources to do that. Put nothing past the BritEng state to deliberately install drigs gangs into Scotland to do similar, without perhaps the violence part, just create havoc and drugs deaths in order to demonise the socialist leaning government and take control of their country, again. It’s about resources that the colonisers want and in many cases, it’s about fossil fuels in particular, OIL.
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Hmm, what about the border? Can’t Scotland’s police the border after independence and stop the drugs gangs getting into Scotland. I know Scotland has a vast coastline which is also not policed (a reserved power to the EngGov!).
Not easy and of course the English gov and police must be quite happy for the English drugs gangs to be exported out of their own country and communities…win win for them.
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During the 2014 propaganda war instigated by 99.9% of the MSM based in England they were falling over themselves telling Scotland a border wall should be built. Well that now looks like the best plan they had. A massive border wall and border checks would have helped prevent a lot of these gangs entering Scotland. They are more than welcome to start, l also know many people would help at the weekends free of charge.
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