How vulnerable teenagers are being lured into county lines gangs: Text messages reveal evil threats made to keep young dealers in criminality

Defenseless young people, older members threatening to damage their families with short messages to make them to the district lines gangs, appeared.

Lee Primonato, a Bedfordshire police officer, was detained on suspicion of drug processing and found terrible short messages on a young child’s phone.

Primonato, “ Bedforshire’dan a drug in the balance of drugs, ” he said. ‘Sometimes they are taken there by the elderly members of that crime group.’

Channel 4’s 24 -hour police custody series, Mr. Primonato’nun young man’s phone on the phone of the moment he realized that threatening messages appeared.

He reads terrible text. ‘Blud il Shank u Mother. I will get you soak, mother [sic]. ‘

In a preview clip shared with Mailonline, Mr. Primonato receives threats on stabbing his mother if he does not work from what he has shifted and owed by his messages.

“ How many lice is given and how much returned to discuss.

‘When they started to deal with a line, “Where is the rest? You had more medicines than that. Where’s money?”

In a preview clip shared with Mailonline, Mr. Primonato seems to pass through messages

The child was held on suspicion of drug processing in Bedfordshire

“ Then they owe it to this line, and then clearly becomes a big problem. They tend not only to them, but also to their families, so they tend to continue to do so even if they do not. ‘

Returning to the young man in the police station, Primonato said: ‘This young man seemed to be beaten last night, he was beaten, he was beaten, his head was down.

‘I really seem to be a victim, I can say.’

A common feature of district lines gangs is the exploitation of young and vulnerable people. National crime agency.

Dealers, children and adults – usually with mental health or addiction problems – will aim to act as a drug runner or to carry cash so that they can not be noticed by law enforcement officers.

In some cases, dealers will take over a local property of a vulnerable person and use it to work.

This was the Jordan, who was in the police custody section of Channel 4 24 hours a day.

When he was questioned by the police about the ‘multiple telephone, tick list and drug use materials’ at home address, Jordan said:’ To be honest with you, you know that I just deal with people who do hard drugs.

He reads terrible text. ‘Blud il Shank u Mother. I will get you soak, mother [sic]. ‘

According to the National Crime Agency, a common feature of Country Lines gangs is the exploitation of young and vulnerable people.

Mr. Primonato explained that when a person owes it to the gang, he tends to continue to do so even if they do not want to.

‘There are different people in my place.’

Jordan said that he used the ‘people’ apartment ‘well from six months to a year’ – but he struggled to remember the full time frame because it was ‘quite quite quite as I was there’.

The young man confirmed that he took hero to the officers, but he was ‘clean for two weeks’.

“At first they abused my addiction,” Jordan explained. “ They would just fill me with drugs to be there.

‘But now I’m clean, it has become a problem for them.’

The officer then removes a piece of paper with the handwriting of Jordan. Read: ’30 £ 30 for 5L’.

Jordan admits that he sells five cocaine windings for £ 30 and proves that he is a hand in handling drugs.

The officer asked: ‘So, you would help sell drugs because you were an accountant?’

Jordan interviews a 24 -hour police officer in Channel 4.

Jordan, who points to the word ’30 £ for 5L’, agrees to sell five cocaine windings

He said he felt that he had no choice but to take drugs for fear of ‘kicking his head’.

“ Not an accountant, ” Jordan replied. ‘In the sense of not wanting to kick my head.

“ Whenever there was something, they would try to put debts in my head, and that’s why I would write exactly how much money came in and out.

“ They confirm that I am not owing any money or that something like that is not lost in my apartment or something like that.

“ I was sure I was covering my back because otherwise they would put debts on my head and then they would be abusive.

‘Even if it was like £ 2 from everywhere, they would try to put it on me.’

‘So did you feel that you are obliged to let these people enter your apartment?’ The officer asked.

Jordan shook his head.

24 hours Channel 4, July 13 at 21:00 custody.