In just one day, the schoolboy made £637 selling wraps of heroin and crack cocaine. He had been driven from Greater Manchester to Blackpool, where he was dropped off and left to fend for himself.
Then just 15 and missing from care, the boy was instructed to stay up through the night selling drugs to addicts close to Central and North piers. READ MORE: "Bell him now before he rats" - 'terrified' addict lied to police and said BMW was stolen after it was used in shooting He was one of three lads puppetmaster Ryan Wall directed to carry out his dirty work.
As Wall sat on the sofa with his girlfriend in Tameside, his foot soldiers were dealing in the seaside resort 60 miles away.
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