Bristol drug dealer jailed for modern slavery offence – BBC News
‘A drug dealer who was involved in trafficking children to sell crack cocaine and heroin has been jailed.’
BBC News, 25th April 2024
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‘A drug dealer who was involved in trafficking children to sell crack cocaine and heroin has been jailed.’
BBC News, 25th April 2024
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‘When armed police burst through his front door in Tottenham, north London, at 5am in September 2014, Glodi Wabelua knew things looked bad. The house was full of drug paraphernalia, including a hydraulic press, scales and mixing bowls, as well as a mobile phone full of incriminating texts advertising deals for crack cocaine and heroin.’
The Guardian, 18th April 2024
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‘Three men have today been jailed for their involvement in a drug enterprise which saw the large scale selling of drugs on the dark web and their onward transmission via post in disguised packaging.’
Crown Prosecution Service, 8th April 2024
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‘An organised crime group has been jailed for supplying Spice, a synthetic cannabis.’
BBC News, 7th April 2024
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‘A family who admitted “trading in Class A drugs worth millions of pounds” have been jailed.’
BBC News, 7th April 2024
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‘Fifteen additional synthetic opioids are now under the strictest controls to prevent drug related deaths and ensure anyone caught supplying them faces tough penalties.’
Home Office, 20th March 2024
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‘A former Liverpool football prodigy of “exceptional talent and promise” has been jailed for more than 13 years for his part in a multimillion-pound drugs conspiracy.’
The Guardian, 21st March 2024
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‘Two men have been jailed for their part in county lines drug dealing.’
BBC News. 1st March 2024
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‘Two men who sent a vulnerable teenager more than 100 miles from his home to sell Class A drugs have been jailed.’
BBC News, 23rd February 2024
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‘Six men who were involved in bringing £1m-worth of cocaine to the streets of Lincolnshire have been jailed.’
BBC News, 17th February 2024
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‘Almost half of the victims of criminal exploitation in the UK are British boys aged under 18, according to a report calling for new laws to acknowledge them as victims of modern slavery.’
The Guardian, 11th February 2024
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‘A gang which ran a drug dealing operation using an estate agent as cover have been jailed.’
BBC News, 5th February 2024
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‘A leading member of a County Lines gang has been jailed for his part in trafficking drugs valued at nearly £250,000.’
BBC news, 29th January 2024
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‘Members of a drug gang which “infested” a seaside resort with up to £1.5m worth of cocaine have been jailed.
Eleven men and one woman were involved in moving up to 15kg (33lbs) of the class A drug into Skegness from Leicestershire.’
BBC News, 9th November 2023
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‘Two ringleaders of a plot to smuggle £11 million of cocaine into the UK hidden in a shipment of bananas have each been jailed for 18 years.’
The Independent, 1st November 2023
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‘A former Leeds United footballer is among four men jailed for dealing large amounts of cocaine after their encrypted messages were intercepted.’
BBC News, 7th August 2023
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‘A German court has refused to extradite to the UK a man accused of drug trafficking because of concerns about prison conditions in Britain.’
The Guardian, 5th September 2023
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‘The leader of drugs gang who recruited a vulnerable 15-year-old boy in a phone call from prison has been sentenced to nine years in jail.’
BBC News, 21st August 2023
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‘A cocaine dealing gang who set up a fake computer company to cover up their operations has been jailed.’
BBC News, 3rd August 2023
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‘A dock worker has been jailed for 21 years for conspiring to import £118m of cocaine into the UK in a shipment of bananas.’
BBC News, 11th July 2023
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