County lines blitz on drug gangs exploiting children as young as nine at London rail station - Vulnerable youngsters enticed ...

TREMBLING in the back of a police car, a terrified 15-year-old boy begs for help from the officer driving. He has just revealed that ruthless drug dealers had forced him to hide 121 wraps of crack ...

Three people tell us their story of county lines. "I have seen a lot of things, seen people get kettled with boiling water," says Nicole. She was recruited to a drug-running gang at the age of ...

More than £4 million worth of drugs were seized last week as police in London executed a swift crackdown on exploitative 'county lines' gangs. Around 70 criminal networks supplying crack and heroin ...

ITV News Social Affairs Correspondent Sarah Corker meets the parents of Ben Nelson Roux, 16, and Jade Hutchings, 18, who were exploited by county lines drug gangs A coroner has written to the ...

Children as young as 12 are being targeted by county lines gangs to sell drugs in Kent, police have said. Criminals are recruiting young people from areas including London to deal heroin and crack ...

DCI Mitchell spoke out after the Met carried out a week-long operation against county lines gangs. A total of 222 suspects were arrested and 177 vulnerable young people safeguarded across London ...

Before she joined the gang, she was sleeping on a mattress on the floor, showering at school when she got the chance. "It finds you," Nicole, now 18, says about county lines. "You don't find it." ...

But the police are determined to tackle the gangs behind the childhood exploitation. Having disrupted multiple county lines, DS Peall issued a warning to drugs gangs plotting to get a foothold in ...