GANGSTERS USED DRILL RAP VIDEOS TO ENTICE CHILDREN INTO DEALING

A MIDLAND drug dealing gang who used drill rap videos to boast about their wealth and lure children into their county lines network have been jailed for a total of 130 years.

- ADAM DUTTON

The 12 gangsters flaunted their luxury lifestyle in music videos which featured them spraying Dom Perignon from a white Rolls-Royce and bragging about defending their turf with guns.

A court heard the gang, including one from Birmingham sold millions of pounds of Class A drugs on an “industrial scale” across Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Lincolnshire and Leicestershire.

A total of 13 drugs lines were later found connected to the gang - including one as far away as Aberdeen in Scotland.

The gang flooded towns with heroin and crack cocaine while defending their turf with knives and guns and even recruited children to move and sell their drugs.