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Hillingdon council: Hillingdon adolescents team

Nicolas was just 15 when he became caught in a downward spiral that started with smoking cannabis and school exclusions and ended with him being recruited into a county lines gang – the criminal networks exploiting teenagers to funnel drugs from towns and cities.

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