• How a drug gang devastated our helpless family

    Joe, 15, was an A-grade pupil. Now he’s being groomed, brutalised and terrified by a county lines gang. One family member tells their powerful, traumatic storyI have known Joe as a part of our extended family since he was born 15 years ago. Quieter than his outgoing big sister, he has been the soft, soulful, sometimes unknowable presence in her exuberant shadow. Lately, though, I am kept awake at night by the fear that any day soon I will receive the news that he is dead.In the past 15 mon

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