County lines gangs: how drug-running is fuelling knife crime

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County lines gangs: how drug-running is fuelling knife crime
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Criminals are using violence to force vulnerable teenagers to carry drugs from London estates to the streets of Norwich

As always, they were gathered in a large huddle in Andover Square, the tree-shaded courtyard in the middle of the estate. Another group stood nearby on the corner of Medina Road; another loitered outside the tower blocks of the Six Acres estate. “You see? They have taken over the streets,” said Fawzia Addou, one of a group of mothers escorting the Observer around the streets of Finsbury Park, north London.

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