A drug dealer who used children as young as 13 to peddle drugs between Greater Manchester and Blackpool has been locked up. Ryan Wall recruited and used three vulnerable children to sell crack cocaine and heroin in Blackpool.
His co-conspirator, Christopher Thornton, also used a child as a runner to peddle Class A drugs and had his own side operation selling from a separate phone line. READ MORE: At least one officer injured after police car crashes into house and another is written off in horror collision Both men admitted modern slavery offences after exploiting the children for their drugs enterprise.
One teenager was trafficked from Tameside up to the resort town by Claire Daniels - who ferried them to and from in her Audi A1.
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