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Ewan Burrows Picture: WILTSHIRE POLICE A TEENAGER was groomed by a notorious Swindon drug gang from the age of 12, a court heard. Ewan Burrows, now 18, was said to have “slipped through the net” although concerns about his vulnerabilities were raised at the time. Now, all youths associated with the Eldene drugs network now automatically referred to a government body as potential victims of modern-day slavery. But after learning that the teenager already had convictions for dealing crack and heroin as a youth and was given a community order last year for dealing cannabis, Judge Jason Taylor QC warned him he was skating on thin ice. A further conviction for supplying class A drugs would put him at risk of a seven year minimum jail sentence.
By Advertiser Reporter
Ewan Burrows Picture: WILTSHIRE POLICE A TEENAGER was groomed by a notorious Swindon drug gang from the age of 12, a court heard. Ewan Burrows, now 18, was said to have “slipped through the net” although concerns about his vulnerabilities were raised at the time. Now, all youths associated with the Eldene drugs network now automatically referred to a government body as potential victims of modern-day slavery. But after learning that the teenager already had convictions for dealing crack and heroin as a youth and was given a community order last year for dealing cannabis, Judge Jason Taylor QC warned him he was skating on thin ice. A further conviction for supplying class A drugs would put him at risk of a seven year minimum jail sentence.