Brazen dealers are flogging Class A drugs on Instagram and Snapchat, near where four people died in drug-related incidents last weekend, a Sunday Mirror investigation reveals.
The crooks demand payment via Bitcoin and hide their identities behind anonymous social media profiles. We found five dealers ready to deliver drugs within the hour to a spot half a mile from where Newcastle University student Jeni Larmour, 18, and another 18-year-old female student died.
Police said that ketamine was present at their halls of residence in Newcastle. A 21-year-old male Nothumbria University student and Mark Johnson, 18, of Washington, Tyne and Wear, also died after they were suspected of taking MDMA.
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