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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Chiara Giordano

Children as young as eight ‘pretending to be drug lords in school playground’

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Children as young as eight are pretending to be drug lords in the school playground, a policing boss has warned as he calls for earlier intervention.

The Independent previously reported how research showed “alarming evidence” of primary school children being targeted by county lines gangs who traffic drugs from urban to rural areas.

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