A heroin and crack dealer who first got an Asbo aged 10 was stabbed 27 times after trying to take over a drugs ring. Alfie Hodgin, now 18, was found with more than £2,000 of heroin and crack cocaine while "slumped on the floor covered in blood".
As reported by the Liverpool Echo, the retribution attack came after Hodgin stole drugs and a 'graft' phone from a county lines ring he previously worked for. A gang of four men set upon him with machetes in a street in Ellesmere Port town centre in Cheshire.
When found in a pool of his own blood, officers also discovered £1,220 worth of heroin and £1,100 of crack cocaine as well as £1,208 and the 'graft' phone - a dedicated deal line mobile. Following the July attack, he spent two weeks in hospital, recovering from his injuries.
