Middlesbrough: Dealers on ‘every street’ and fire-bombed houses
I’ve lived on the life I’m not going to say oh you sell drugs I’m not your friend what I am going to say you sell drugs it’s up to you consequences came as well I think 90% of the people are on all small cannabis most of the population’s on uh cocaine it’s well
Rare to not be on it well it’s definitely not hidden from the kids I always see it everywhere and people look up to it and see who your role model is I remember when I was in school I think the youngest people I’ve seen doing dug
My age I might have been in year nine or year 10 and people were on all sorts cair drugs do you think the kids know more about drugs than the of course I do yeah course million per Yeah there’s a real risk places like this don’t exist that kids then get exploited and oh yeah working oh yeah definitely definitely working for them even get bullied in way do you know what I mean to do it for them they like they scared or intimidated by the older
Person what sorts of incentives are you offering kids obviously money if you work or can you go and take that to so and so can you go around their M as well the police wouldn’t look at a child so it’s basically their favor it’s working in their favor not the child they don’t
Have a clue they say as I’m getting a f pound prob probably from the age 10 it depends on the child cuz some of the kids are quite grown up in the head so I like a lot growing up in the head and it’s it won’t be just a one day thing
Like probably could be about five times a this like it could be make £25 so £25 to a child and they don’t see no wrong cuz even adults would be going you they only kids no nothing will happen to you and kids believe adults and especially
The wrong ones as well and they also look at oh look you got this the best claws the best this and in the Z want that it’s just easy with starts for me David and the rest of the people who do jelly Stone every single
One of them V got a relative who’s lost a life to suicides to drugs families around here it’s just not the same as it used to be mostly majority is down to drugs somewhere safe they can come out the what in the warmth and talk to people who speak to them like normal
People they’re not going to speak to them like a social worker it’s like well you know where you are we were we were there 20 year ago off me even less I’m No Angel believe me I’ve been in amongst of it all myself I lost everything of of
What I had and it’s just a case of i’ rather see these kids and tell them go down this path don’t follow us because before you know it’s you’re going to sit there on your own thinking where’s it where’s everyone gone it’s simple fact and it it’s not going to change unless
Something’s done and I don’t to be truth with you I don’t think the system have got a clue what’s going on they’ve lost full contact with the real world to me they haven’t got a clue this is another sad thing I’m not going to point fingers at dealers because life’s that hard
People who sit there don’t sell drugs because they believe it’s going to help them make their fam’s life better better it’s Temptation in there basically it’s just we’re living in a council state growville we got a lot of kids who have nothing to do and it’s just laying them
Down the wrong path and for them now it’s easier now get drugs because they’re all same price do you know so it’s very easy 10 to a kid these days not much but they can get something very dangerous for that little price and here we’re not going to have what they do on
The outdoors We’ll advise them but we can’t we can’t like four and we can’t watch them 24/7
KIDS as young as ten have been dealing drugs while riding bicycles around a British town riddled with substance abuse.
In the Teesside town of Middlesbrough, fed-up residents say they know of dealers “on every street” and even hospital wards are used to trade cocaine, heroin and meth.
Cleveland Police has the third highest rate of drug offences in the country, at 4.1 per 1,000 people, with only Merseyside and the Met having higher rates.
And the stark reality of life in the poverty-stricken zone emerged as residents told of houses being fire-bombed in drug-related reprisal attacks.
In the suburb of Hemlington, locals were genuinely scared to speak out about drug gangs causing carnage in their community.
They told The Sun how the community library was often used as a hub for dealing class A wares.
Joyce Barker, 58, said she had seen children as young as 10 using bikes to deliver drugs.
She said: “Every week there’s a car that comes onto the estate – a big, posh car – and there’s a huddle of kids who gather around it.
“They get the supplies doled out to them and then they go off delivering around the estate.
“I’m looking at them thinking ‘you’ve not got a hair on your face’.
“They’re so young. They should be in school, instead they’re dealing drugs.
“But I don’t blame the kids. They’re seeing the posh car, the clothes, the watches and they want the same.
“It’s the adults who know better. Deal your drugs, fine – that’s your choice. But getting kids to do your dirty work. That’s cowardly.”
A police operation in Hemlington last year saw thousands of pounds worth of drugs seized and weapons recovered.
But locals say drugs continue to blight the estate.
One pensioner told how he lived two doors away from a drug dealer.
Too fearful to be named, he said: “There’s a drug dealer on every street around here. Everyone knows who they are but nothing ever seems to stop them.
“We’ve got bungalows that have been set alight and boarded up because there’s been a dispute or someone wants to mark their territory.
“Hemlington used to be a nice place to live. But it’s just getting worse and worse.
“I’ve never known it as bad as it is right now. The place is just lawless.”
Social worker Bethany White, 28, added: “People in power need to come and live here and experience what’s going on.
“There’s no community policing and so we’ve got a generation of kids who are growing up and won’t acknowledge that the police are there to help.”
The prevalence of drugs is so bad in Middlesbrough that doctors warned in September that dealers are brazenly selling drugs on hospital wards.
Police meanwhile said brazen drug leaders spray numbers on walls to advertise which house they are selling from.
Vascular surgeon Barney Green said: “What we’re seeing is one admitted every 1.4 days. This is really related to the drugs trade and illicit crime.
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41 comments
Migrants hard at work lol:)
Normal for lower class brokies
Sad 😔
Booze is a drug and you all go to a dealer each day yet you wanna tell me that because i'm in chronic pain i take weed i'm a gruggie or a lesser human
Murdaside
The kids need educating on drugs. Show them what it can do to the addicts and dealers that always get caught in end. Yes not every homeless people take drugs but it mostly will be down to drugs or drink. Education is the key and God bless Middlesbrough.
I have family living there and please believe me Middlesbrough is lawless its violent ,the police need more money and help because its getting worse. Ive NEVER been anywhere like it in this country! Government needs to step in.
Middlesbrough has always been a massive dump
As a kid yeah I smoked just ciggys we use to buy them in school 15 pence each but drugs never even crossed my mind the only reason I smoked was everyone in my house did so I was breathing it in anyway. By 15 my mum said if u want to smoke do it but do it in your room with the window open. To this day drugs never even interested me even in my teens yeah I drunk at Christmas birthdays but never drugs.
I was a kid and I had a brain.
"We would like to congratulate drugs for winning the war on drugs "
Prohibition fails 💔
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There were many industrial and agricultural towns in the seventies that were run-down but most of them have improved a lot: Middlesborough seems to have gone down.
The reason we have 10 year old drug dealers is simple ask the UN as they have declared the UK GOVERNMENT has broken an international law where our economy only serves the elites and not an inclusive society. 4.1 million people now live in extreme poverty in the UK….that’s a whopping 1 in 5 people! That’s even worse than the worst years of a Thatcher era. Universal credit is only just shy of £80 a week for an adult over 25 . This is disgusting for a rich nation as the UK IS. These are the words of the UN 🇺🇳 . Put that in your pathetic little comic
Wow …what a surprise. NOT
EVERY CITY IN THE UK NOW!!!
ASIAN GANG AGAIN? MASSIVE GRIP UP NORTH
SAT BACK AND WATCHED IT HAPPENING
NOW ITS ONLY GETTING WORST
COUNTRY IS FU*KED
Prohibition is the cause of all of this. Legalise the trade and get the problem into the light.
Torys created this environment
Anybody voting tory next election needs to take good look around at there handy work
Deliberate decimation of society. Governments to thank for our countries demise !!!!!!!!👿🤬
Deindustrialization and the decline of the U.K .
Cannabis is not a drug problem
Down to the parents , raise your kids like Animals what you expect them to become?
They send a lot of asylum seekers to Middlesbrough more than anywhere else in the country. I imagine a lot of them are escaping traumatic experiences from their own country and then end up in Teesside. They probably wished they stayed in their own country.. not a nice place to start a new life.
Sunak… keeps making the rich richer! For Gods sake the Government needs to start helping those worst off disgraceful.
It's the same the whole country
Drugs should be legal anyway, spending £44,000 per year to keep them inside is ludicrous!
This is what happens when you take funding away from the poorest areas of Britain thanks Rushi Sunak it would be nice to see him going through the hill that he's forced upon other people
What do you expect people too do work for a 10er an hour and live lile a tramp
I grew up on them estates. They've only really went pear shaped over the last 20 years. A lot of property was bought up by landlords out of the area who didn't give a 💩 who was in them or what condition they where in,blighting whole neighbourhood's to this day.
UK is soo light on crime.
Any of these losers actually work a job ?
All due to uncontrolled immigration
Bring back more opportunities for the kids, with no work, no prospects no future = no hope 😢
Tory Britain
Where are the police ?
Britain needs more people to get into the army. These boys should be made to enter instead of wasting their youth on crime and terrorising the general public
Remember !
Drugs are only legal if your a Royal Family member , Government officials and police that take them for fun . I've known drugs to go missing in police stations 😂
£10 might not sound like much but with this "spice" "mamba" "synthetic cannabis" being sold in Birmingham for as little at 50p a joint or how ever they chose to abuse it, that's what is making things worse, I mean if been told it can be made with household cleaners what the hell
Stop making life so expensive most cant afford it on minimum wage jobs…. notice always the rougher areas where there no jobs but everything is still ridiculously expensive.
UTB