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ROUGH JUSTICE: Teenage killers including two girls who grinned for selfies after brutal county lines killing get soft sentences
Three teenage drug runners who were convicted of killing a 51-year-old man, after selfies and videos taken on the night were used to place them at the scene, have been jailed. Anthony Marks, 51, was hit with a car bonnet before being chased down, stamped on and beaten with a gin bottle in a vicious county lines retribution attack. He was found by the Met Police with serious injuries to his face and arms at King’s Cross Station at around 5:25am on Saturday, 10 August 2024. He
By JON AUSTIN
Jan 5


Last member of 'county lines' drugs gang who flooded Plymouth and Gosport with heroin and crack cocaine from Liverpool is jailed
A "MANAGER" in a county lines drugs gang that peddled crack cocaine and heroin between Liverpool into Gosport and Plymouth has been jailed for six years and nine months. Danny Venning, 39, (pictured above) of Beatrice Avenue, Lipson, Plymouth, was jailed when he appeared at Portsmouth Crown Court, as the last member of the gang to be sentenced after the group was dismantled following an investigation by Hampshire & Isle of Wight Constabulary’s Northern Area Serious & Organise
By JON AUSTIN
Dec 16, 2025


Nearly 2,000 arrests as police target 'county lines' drug gangs over one week - what are they doing the rest of the year?
Criminal gangs who exploit children and vulnerable adults to supply drugs across the country were targeted last week in a national police...
By JON AUSTIN
Jul 3, 2025


Boris promises the impossible - to 'cut off the head' of the illegal drugs trade over next decade
BORIS Johnson today vowed to do something no government has ever managed before - to stamp out "the scourge of drug crime and the...
By JON AUSTIN
Dec 5, 2021


COUNTY LINES CRACKDOWN: More than quarter of 1,000 arrested across country were in London
MORE than a quarter of the around 1,000 people arrested during the country's biggest ever crackdown on county lines drug dealing were...
By JON AUSTIN
Sep 25, 2020


COUNTY LINES CRACKDOWN: More than 1,000 arrested in a week from Scotland to Cornwall
MORE than 1,000 people were arrested during the country's biggest ever single operation against the menace of county lines drug dealing....
By JON AUSTIN
Sep 24, 2020


EXCLUSIVE: Refugee who dodged deportation after prison blunder went on to become county lines drugs
A REFUGEE who dodged deportation after he was released early from prison by mistake went on to become a county lines drugs boss, Essex...
By JON AUSTIN
Jul 6, 2020


EXCLUSIVE: Major Government review of tackling serious organised crime unlikely to look at issues of
A GOVERNMENT inquiry into how to tackle the growing menace of serious and organised crime, that is due to soon report its findings, is...
By JON AUSTIN
Mar 5, 2020


Police look to use unexplained wealth orders against drug gangs.. but are there already powers to se
NEW powers intended to be used to sift out "dirty money" laundered in the UK by Russian oligarchs could be used to strip suspected county...
By JON AUSTIN
Jan 29, 2020


SOFT JUSTICE: Dealer found with drugs and knife spared jail to start university
A DRUG dealer caught with cannabis, cocaine, a large hunting knife and criminal cash has been spared jail so he can go to university...
By JON AUSTIN
Oct 5, 2019









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