An 'impressionable' teenager was 'indoctrinated' by his gangster dad to become a cocaine trafficker for his crime empire, a court heard.
Brodie Stott, then 17, had been a law-abiding citizen until he moved in with his 42-year-old father Anthony Stott. Over a two year period - and under his dad's impression - Stott Jnr started by collecting drug debts from addicts, before he then sent out group texts marketing their illicit products then peddled crack on the streets from a car.
Both were arrested after police raided a lock-up and their shared property and found packages of cocaine and cannabis, four mobile phones and more than £4,000 in cash.
Police claimed Stott Snr had also been in possession of a loaded firearm whilst his son carried a retractable baton as part of his drug debt collections activities. READ MORE:A laughing perv, a burgling mum and a man who sleeps with an axe...
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