Multi-million pound county lines gang from Yorkshire who tried to ‘take over communities’ jailed for 27 years

Multi-million pound county lines gang jailed for 27 years
A county lines gang from Bradford who set up over a million-pound county lines drugs network in a bid to take over communities across Goole and Hull have been jailed for 27 years.

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