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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Remy Greasley

Pensioner 'couldn't say no' to gang who made him supply drugs

A man who admitted he had been working for a county lines drug gang said he wanted to stop.

Paul Walters, 66, was discovered by police officers when they were doing a welfare check on people in the Swansea bedsit where he lived. When Walters opened the door, officers saw a bag of brown powder, and Walters told the officers that he had been supplying heroin on behalf of a Liverpool drug dealer.

Walters told the officers he wanted to stop, and his barrister told Swansea Crown Court that Walters was just the kind of person criminals from county lines drug gangs prey on to do their bidding.

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