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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ม.ค. 2024
- 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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#Middlesbrough #drugaddicts #lawless
Heartbreaking at what has happened in the UK.
Not all of it is like this.
Middlesbrough has always been like this.
@@davidfinley7766 Even worse now.
Bring back national service and half of these youths, probably more, wont get into this they will have the moral compas and skills needed to do well in life.
Or change government mabee considering they caused all this nightmare wake up
is it possible to add millions of illegals to the army?
They shouldnt even be here along with the legals@@kevinfarquar211
Lmao what a load of nonsense. I know service and ex servicemen that get on gear when they have an opportunity
Bring back national service to do what? Be action men for the government? Fighting wars for things they have no say or understanding on/over? Rightly or wrongly raiding peoples homes on foreign land for what reason? I’m born and bred in the UK white British but let me say this… if I was a child in a third world country, growing up, watching family members getting killed/blown up/family homes raided, constant presence of UK/USA military and dare I say their are good and bad people in all walks of life so unfortunately their will be war crimes committed aswell! If I was watching all this around me I’d probs grow with a vendetta and be labelled a terrorist, just saying.
I wonder if Middlesborough has witnessed a mass increase of immigration at the same time?
That’s nowt to do with immigration, it’s Thatcher closing down the coal fields, other heavy industries closing, fishing, steel, manufacturing, so there’s no jobs, no hope, no community any more, then the scousers come in with the county lines which makes the drug problem that was already well out of control, exponentially worse
By a huge capacity
@@loudrah326My parents are from the north east and they are in their late 60s. Its always been bad. Please don't make this about something its not. There are other forgotten areas like this with the same issues
@@ryanifbb5204 have you and your parents been down Parliament Road lately! I am guessing not! Do you and your parents know about the police meet and greets with coaches whilst you are sleeping, taken to their new house! Their pick up points are South Bank docks and Middlesbrough Transporter other side.... Are you aware that these lovely immigrants are going around our lovely what is left of the towns and drugging your local girls drinks! Seen it for myself as it nearly happened to two different friends two different occasions and when you talk about it everyone has the same descriptions! I live in Middlesbrough I have seen it first hand and are you aware why all your loavl town halls and councils all around the country are going bankrupt??? I am guessing not! This is from the council themselves all their cash has gone on child services in every single town! And it is the migrant children that are draining every council! Ring up and ask them! As they come here with a different way of life, what is not acceptable to us and our children is acceptable to them and their children! So please don't tell me to not tarnish yes what once was a lovely town....
Nope its very very white up there, and its always had a huge crime rate long before any immigration to britain
Problem with life today people have children but don’t take responsibility for them
Many of them just have a child to get social housing.
Exactly
"Poverty stricken". Professor Thomas Sowell has explained time and time again, that poverty has little to do with criminality. Nor are drugs to blame. Criminality is a lifestyle choice. People choose to become drug addicts, and they choose to fund their habit through crime. Up until the 1960's, the British public knew exactly what to do about people like that, and expected the police and courts to do what should be done, it wasn't complicated.
Beautifully said drugs are a big problem not just for those involved but the whole society,community and the whole country stop them completely. It ruins everything no drugs get serious and harsh on this look at how much damage is done and sadly still being done.
Once they take drugs 💉 thats it damage has been done mental health there childeren will be damaged etc list goes on
Woke government and Police
Criminality and drug addiction are two completely separate concepts.
Many people become addicted to perfectly legal substances - some of which are in fact *forced* on to people by the state.
Many substances that have _become_ illegal, may have been substances that a user may have been addicted to *_before_* they became illegal.
Not that legal and lawful should be confused, you understand...
Impoverishment per se may not necessarily be {a} predominantly driving factor in inducing criminal activity from somebody...
Circumstantial disadvantage on the other hand, may well do.
Circumstances beyond the conceivable control of the would be criminal - many circumstances of which are being newly devised again and again and in contemporary British "society" to draw people in - may compel somebody to engage in certain criminal acts, in order to preserve one's very self - whether it be immediately apparent as to why this is, or not.
The inducer of such a lifestyle that another ends up suffering by adopting, gets away with it - time, time and time again, without so much as a second thought.
It's they - they who remain in the shadows - they who devise plans to sow all manner of subtle division and destruction - and their mechanisms and infrastructure - that need to be directly remedied.
NOT the poor sod on the street who has no idea what's even happened until it's too late!!
That's between them and the man upstairs.
The situation here on Earth, is the one that we ought to focus on addressing.
That was good until you brought in magic men in the sky😂@@letsdiscussitoversometea8479
It's an utter disgrace with so many homeless people waiting for housing for those houses to sit there Destroyed.
Get a bloody grip Sunak !
Sunak is not responsible it has been Labour controlled since 1973 , miraculously the conservatives took over in 2019, but Labour activists harassed them out of their positions, the council is now back under Labour control, the council has been run so badly it is yet another Labour Council that has gone bankrupt.
If you are an illegal or immigrant you wont be homeless
The houses are being firebombed-plus its drug ridden
This is what apathy leads to.
Diversity is the swamp that the UK is flooded in. So many immigrants get so much help, while our youngsters fall into the pit of destruction.
The war on drugs has failed. Drugs are more pure and certainly more available since i was in high school.
We really do need a new,revised approach to this problem.War on Drugs is a huge failure and the gift which keeps on giving to criminal gangs.Yes criminal behaviour is a blight on communities,but we have to address the demand and the hopelessness surrounding it…it’s a no brainer
Right now you are singing to the choir. If you want change, start with the 7 closest people in your life and explain the issue. Tell them the problem.
You realise the biggest criminals in society are those you pay your taxes to.
Bad parenting bad teaching and soft punishment for customers and suppliers. Courts and police need to toughen up
@Bernardjoyce I totally agree with you about the bad parents. People are & have been way too lazy to chastise their children. It's happening in Dublin aswell. Ya wouldn't see it in my granny's time.
There should be no punishment for customers
Headline: man gets 3 months in jail for threatening to slap teenage son after stealing motorbike.
How can you blame parents when the very threat of the most basic discipline lands them in jail? My father never hit me but he made it dam clear where the line was and I wasn't willing to test him.
Also 40 years of neglect from the government's has led to this
@@robbiestephenson8497what a pile of crap
It’s personal decisions that lead to this
This is what happens in deprived areas in the UK.
This is what makes areas deprived.
all uk is deprived to me every town i see on youtube looks deprived.
This happens in west London where all the rich people stay😂poverty has nothing to do with drugs
The whole of the UK looks like this 😂
Deprived has nothing to do with it,i grew up in this area and doing alright as is my sister. Good parental upbringing.
Not only Middlesbrough every town city and village in England the police have lost the war on crime a massive rethink of the justice system is needed and instead of wasting money housing foreign migrants we should be building more prisons and getting tougher on the criminals and claim back society
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.
The worst country I ever lived in. GB Banana Republic.
Poor people shouldn't have kids and government should ban child benefits and council houses. These things just fuel lazy people.
The reciprocating saw. Legendary.
Like America the UK is finished.
yep...land of the overcrowded and broke.
Fight back!🇬🇧👏
As a Yorkshire man that’s been in Asia for 18 years.. 16 in Thailand and now 2 in Taiwan I see daily how the UK has fallen
What a disgrace
How do our politicians get away with this nonsense
They should spend a week or so in these areas and see exactly what’s happening on our streets. Close the borders and put the money into helping the people who have lived here for many years “generations of British families “ .
Because stupid people keep voting for them.
I traveling to different places in UK every each year… now this starts to be bit scary, especially in all seaside places, unfortunately most of the UK starts to look like a proper damp, what can help to stop it/ improve it?
Change of government
stop funding immigrants, keep them out, and allocate the vast billions squandered on them towards the problem
I live 7 miles from Middlesbrough.
See beggars, broken shop windows, shoplifting, drug addicts.
That’s all good and well, but who is to blame? I blame immigrants for all of this
I think we should have a special police unit dealing with this
Yeah and they called a S.W.A.T if they been funded it could wiped all dealers off the map in the UK. While Police can do theirs normalized jobs as S.W.A.T would takes care of drugs dealers
The crimes would drastically drops too if Uk did funded an S.W.A.T. They takes it more serious then the Police does
yep a s.w.a.t team busting doors down ask questions later
They had multiple units, Labour cut their funding.
Did they? Can you share more details and references so I can share this information please @@seamuspadraigsanders431
This is everywhere in the uk not just in these areas
What do you mean these areas
This is allowed to happen because police officers are sitting in cars and not on the beat. We don’t need more officers we need the ones we have patrolling properly and not sat in cars.
Hope Lord Houchen does see this after all he is Tees Valley Mayor and his mate Steve Turner is Police and Crime commissioner.he could have used the profits from Teesworks to help cut crime instead his mates benefitted
Lived in hemlington for 8 years was fine back then now the council is begging people to take houses round that way
always reminds me of living back at my other old flat,Turned out to be rough old place,Did not get any better over the years,More good neighbors moved out,Flats become empty,Get druggys and criminals moving in,More good Neighbors move out,More druggys and criminals move in,Half of them have been in and out of Jail as well,Whole street went very rough,Other streets near by where not much better
Very sad.
have worked with loads of smoggies over the years , great lads but they do love the beak .
Sad
Clearly see ' Harry Brown ' film starring Michael Cane in this, good too see police using Makita
recip saws .
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.
But you know they won’t don’t you.
I live in Boro and it's always been crazy but most of us just laugh about it.
F the police. They can look after themselves.
Proof of all CLAIMS Required.
Middlesbrough has always been a massive dump
I was brought up there !Was a a teacher in the schools .As soon as I was able I got myself and young family the hell out.
Australia had been a wonderland 🇬🇧😢
@@AlanBoddy-fl2qp Don’t blame you mate
@@TheAArmstrong Sad to see whats become of it though! ( A few only happy memories)
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.
As prophesied in 1981!
This town, is coming like a ghost town
All the clubs have been closed down
This town, is coming like a ghost town
Bands won't play no more
too much fighting on the dance floor
Do you remember the good old days before the ghost town?
We danced and sang, and the music played in a de boomtown
This town, is coming like a ghost town
Why must the youth fight against themselves?
This town, is coming like a ghost town
Government leaving the youth on the shelf
This town, is coming like a ghost town
No job to be found in this country
Can't go on no more
The people getting angry
This country could do with 10 more prisons.
My kind of perfect estate
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.
I moved to teeside because I find them the friendliest folk was living in East anglia before, but introverted cagey bunch of weirdo's down there..
The North has always had less post industrialization but it wins outright with the warmth of its people, diss these areas all you like but you'll find real humanity there.
Certain parts of Teesside can be a nice place to live. I live there. But not Middlesbrough.
Drugs should be legal anyway, spending £44,000 per year to keep them inside is ludicrous!
Sad 😔
Wouldnt want to live in that hole.
A lot of people don’t but have no choice.
I was a kid and I had a brain.
Bet you can't put a fruit pastel in your mouth without chewing it through 😅😂😊
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.
Is been totally neglected like a lot of places but probably one of the worst.
@@davidclixby5840 by far not the worst.
@@SnakePliskin762what's worse than that he'll hole?
England is like that. London and ghetto
Do you mean outsourcing jobs to the East and rolling over for the E.U has resulted in social breakdown and the spiral into criminality? Will there be any "positive discrimination" for the victims of this economic terrorism? Or is it only brown people who suffer from systemic disenfranchisement?
@WinstonSmith22 Top comment. I can't imagine any Councillor or MP stopping by this estate for long.
Society wants prohibition,this is part of the price it has to pay I’m afraid to say,some other parts are high crime rates,full prisons and exploitation of vulnerable people and children,plus all the damage of a collateral nature.
all this just to slightly disrupt the drug supply chain.
I suggest a new policy of legislation, regulation, and education.
P.s anyone who supports prohibition is essentially helping the illegal drug trade exist,drug dealers need uneducated daily mail readers to help them ply their trade.Drug dealers don’t exist without Prohibitionists👍✌️
What has happened to the UK? Lawless Britain.
£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
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.
You can rent an entire studio flat for £400 and 3 bed houses for £600 in Cleveland. If you can’t afford that then that’s your problem. That’s not expensive at all
UK is soo light on crime.
Its mad how no one in the comments is getting on to government about the lack of oppertunity they provide in them areas i bet middlesborough even has a lot closed down shops just shows theres not much oppertunity so everyones turning to drugs
That's 💩 i know plenty from those areas who done well in life,it's all about choices and graft.
3:42 okay????? Am I tripping?! 😂
legalize and tax it like we do here in the state for legal pot
I’m not sure it would help much. Dealers would simply undercut the price of the taxed legal drugs or invent new cocktails to sell on the streets.
looks like sw ATL back in the 90s. Bankhead cts
Good luck and the upmost respect to the lads doing what they doing,but sadly drugs will always be there and you fighting a losing battle but if you can change a few lives then that’s what it’s all about
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.
Makes you proud to be British
AKA HELLMINGTON.
The only thing I understood these people say was drugs.
Get kids in the army or navy like in the 1930’s
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 druggie or a lesser human
Spent a year drinking everyday depressed gaining weight angry tired, went cold Turkey and started on the blunts again and not a single issue
I would recommend cannabis over alcohol any day of the week
@@AnonymousD0W thank you...
Murdaside
Bring back more opportunities for the kids, with no work, no prospects no future = no hope 😢
Broken Britain.
Lovely place
I might move there
@@Hugh_Bastards675honestly you don’t want to.
@@davidclixby5840 no a chance mate im happy where i am.
leveling up is going well
Sunak… keeps making the rich richer! For Gods sake the Government needs to start helping those worst off disgraceful.
Still 1000% better than Detroit, Oakland, Compton etc.
So, it’s okay then?
Where are the police ?
Macdonalds
It's the same the whole country
Liberal side effects
Wake up, its 2024.. This has been happening for years
Middlesbrough? you mean every single Town in UK
Cannabis is not a drug problem
Labour?
Well There famous constituent song in 1997 when tony Blair took office was.. D,ream.. Things can only get better......
The pubs are all closing down, the dealers running riot.
Pathetic soft justice system and prisons that are like butlins what do you expect
there they r the legalised burglars
Well that's the problem right there the local leader is a ex gangsta 😂nobody gonna listen because he did the exact same thing when he was younger. The parents need to arrested for their children crimes
Lots around them places drugs.maybe the houses are boarded up got drugs production inside
You need toattackthe top and work down not the other way around and if any are migrants jail fine deport that means the whole family .lets het thismoveing now
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 😂
It's insanity to continue on this path on drugs. It's got worse and worse. Governments need to legalise and tax it. This is the only way to drive the crime out.
You don’t want to legalise drugs, ever been to New York? You feel like you are always going up and down on a lift just by breathing the air there
won't work , with the taxes it will be more expensive thus creating a black market,back to square one
End up like America.
No thanks
Deindustrialization and the decline of the U.K .
Time to legalise cannabis and sold controlled and let the police concentrate on getting rid of class A and legalisation of cannabis would stop the imagrants growing it and making the money from it to take out the country. We grow cannabis in the UK to export yet we haven't legalised it for the people
Aw the beautiful UK 😂
Prohibition is the cause of all of this. Legalise the trade and get the problem into the light.
Anybody voting tory next election needs to take good look around at there handy work
Good old makita
so this is the land of milk and honey the boat people are coming to
Prohibition fails 💔
Mate of mine drives down evey 2 weeks from newcastle to go pick up a big slab of coke that arrives inthe docks
That’s a great story pal!
Does he, aye?? Thanks for that riveting piece of journalism.
Ya daft grass
Typical immigrant country Problem!
Its whitest region in Britain
It's everywhere spreading as no one is stopping it.
what an ignorant comment. It's a class problem not an immigration or race problem.
Muppet. This issue has been around far longer than todays immigration issues.
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UTB
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UK Intelligence libra ♎⚖👊💨
Legalise drugs. This will stop
Go to cities where drugs are legalized. Seattle ect. You wouldn't be able to walk the street safely.
@@olegoleg5463 talking about England my friend.
Like it did n America 🙄
Tory Britain
Send this lot to rawanda oh sorry these arnt migrants of boat's these are the local natives lol
Migrants hard at work lol:)