A former accountant was the victim of 'cuckooing' in her flat when her husband of ten years was remanded into custody for another matter. He was Trisha Causer's designated carer for her physical and mental health problems and without him she was lost, insecure and emotionally brittle, said a judge.
As she could not cope living without him, Causer, resorted to using heroin, as she had done previously, to settle her nerves, Nottingham Crown Court heard on Tuesday. And then she fell under the sway of two young men to the extent they moved into her flat to deal drugs - a process known as cuckooing.
Cuckooing, the illegal practice of taking over a person's property to use it for criminal activities such as drug dealing, was depicted in hit BBC show Line of Duty. The term takes inspiration from a cuckoo's habit of taking over other birds' nests to house its young.
