‘My Christian son was abducted by a drug gang’
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Mary Deller2022-03-02T12:34:00
When Michael did not come home from school one day, little did his mum suspect that her son, a polite, well-behaved teen who attended church regularly, had been recruited by a county lines drugs gang. It was the start of an eight week nightmare with devastating consequences
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