As police celebrate tackling Merseyside based drug rings a new case almost immediately emerges in Cumbria.
Barrow-in-Furness has been a regular and lucrative target for big city crime syndicates peddling heroin, crack-cocaine and other drugs while their leaders sit back and watch the profits roll in from afar. Yesterday the ECHO reported the case of Yacine Djalti, who at just 20 was described as the "leader" of an organised crime group directing men decades older than him.
Whether and to what extent Djalti, of no fixed address but with links to Woolton and Toxteth, answered to senior criminals is unclear. However phone evidence revealed he directed local dealers in Barrow from Liverpool, and even sent underage scouse teenagers to the town to work for him on the so-called 'Mo' drugs line.
