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A callous drug dealer, who forced children to sell heroin and crack cocaine after trafficking them across several counties, has been jailed in a landmark case.
Zakaria Mohammed groomed three vulnerable victims before making them sell class-A drugs from squalid flats a hundred miles from their homes.
It's the first time in UK legal history a drug-dealer has been been convicted in Britain for breaching the Modern Slavery Act by trafficking children.
The two boys and a girl, aged 14 and 15, were transported from Birmingham to Lincoln to work as "expendable workhorses in cuckooed drugs dens.
The teenagers who had been reported missing, were found by officers in a filthy and freezing one-bed flat with two drug addicts, and surrounded by used syringes.