Vulnerable human trafficking victims and children are being used as mules by English drug lords to ferry cocaine and heroin to Edinburgh by train, police chiefs have warned.
Unscrupulous dealers from Birmingham, Liverpool and London are manipulating immigrants from South-East Asian countries in a sickening ploy, reports the Scottish Express. Detective Chief Inspector Arlene Wilson, of British Transport Police, said so-called County Lines gangs also exploited children to carry drugs on the rail network north of the border.
Intelligence suggests the kingpins are believed to be moving into drug markets in Edinburgh, Dundee and Aberdeen, the Sunday Post reports. The dealers are understood to have avoided Glasgow and the rest of the west for fear of falling out with rivals gangs.
