Mum, 30, ran drug line like 'a family business'

DEFENCE LAWYER: 'THIS IS HOW SHE GREW UP. THIS IS WHAT SHE KNOWS, THIS IS HER LIFE'

- AMY WALKER

A MUM-OF-TWO controlled a heroin and cocaine drugs line described by a judge as a "family business".

Bianca Freeman-Blakeborough, 30, sent out multiple messages to potential buyers over a nine-month period.

Up to 6.8 kilos were distributed, with almost £680,000 made, Manchester Crown Court heard. When FreemanBlakeborough was arrested at her home dea in Burnside Crescent, Middleton, earlier this year, police seized the phone from which she ran the drugs line. Messages from her dad were found. He said the drugs line was being run as her 'business.

Freeman-Blakeborough admitted supplying heroin and crack cocaine and yesterday was jailed for nine years.