By Eric King And Anthony Young-
Kilburn North West London- Crack dealing in Mozart estate is big business, ‘successful’ dealers are raking in up to £5,000 a day, an insider told the eye of media.com on Wednesday evening.
It is ”competitive, exciting, and rewarding”, a dealer anonymously told the eye of media.com. The well dressed man introduced to the eye of media.com via a mutual link of the younger sister of an old school mate speaks of the dangers and rewards of ”shoting”(promounced ‘shutting’, meaning, dealing) . ”There are so many cats(punters or addicts) round here. They want this stuff badly, he tells us. We can’t be in short supply, we are always rolling in it. It is cash in hand, but sometimes, you have to sell on tick( credit to pay back) to those who have no money immediately”.
Those on benefits let us know their pay day, and the same goes for those working. Many people think it is just black rough necks buying drugs, but we have smart white accountants and lawyers who buy this stuff.They spend hundreds a day, so much that they may run out of money and require ”trust” to pay on their pay days. Tick(credit) is given to those people whose whereabouts we can guarantee. We know where they hang out to smoke their pipes, in many cases, w eknow where they live, he tells us.
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We had been charged £100 for this interview, which we hold on Kilburn High Road. Instead we bought a nice pair of £80 trainers for the well built man in his early 20’s, who alternates his location to run his deals. He trusts us, we will never reveal his name or identity anywhere, but we seek to gain an insight into drug problem plaguing the area and causing deaths.
RULES
”Listen, he says emphatically, those who play by the rules will have no problems, but those who want overnight success and want to rob people have a big problem. Nobody dies for no reason. You get those in this area setting up other people to be robbed, thinking they won’t get found out. But when the robbers eventually get caught and tortured, they always ‘g’ (grasse, expose) up the people that set them up for the robbery. People set up their friends for a cut in the money they get. They forget it is a small world, and their so-called bad boy friends will eventually tell someone, especially if they or their friend falls out with the informer”.
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”Then you get those who want to come from other areas and steal somebody’s patch is asking for it. You get these guys from other sides(areas, post codes) who bowl down our streets, and want to act like bad boys. They want to check our girls and deal their drugs on our turf. That a’int happening. Post code wars are not the way you guys make it to be. When people come from other areas to our manna , we clock(notoce) them quickly”.
”They can’t be trusted when some of our boys have beef with some of their boys. They should know this. We don’t know if they are here to spy deal, or look for someone. They know they shouldn’t be here. Some guys from these sides set people up to get robbed or team up with undercover cops to trap people dealing. That’s looking for trouble! This game is big risky business, guys have to know how to behave. Girls like to be with guys who have papers(money), you get me.
”They don’t always understand what they are getting into especially when they leave one dealer for another dealer in the same area or another area. They become suspects and not trusted. Girls talk too much and sometimes get into trouble for it, or get others in trouble. Our guy says he doesn’t rob anyone , but knows people who do. ”You won’t get be rolling in a ride(car) with a man that goes round licking yards(robbing dealers in their base). That’s cause I know once I am seen with them, I will inherit their beef or their rivals will think I may have been one of the guys there with them”.
”Many of the youngers(younger ones) don’t think like this. They want to be seen with the mans(guys) wearing the big tom(gold chains or braces), and driving the big rides. They can get taken out that way. Asked why he doesn’t just hold a normal job like law abiding people and avoid the dangers of violence and police associated with drugs, he says ”laters to that”, meaning no way. That’s slow money. I got no qualifications, I can’t be working for peanuts. I am soon gonna set up a legit business and pass this on, but it’s about making money right about now star”.
We ask one last question before leaving. How can crack addicrion and drug dealing in the UK be beaten? ”That will never happen he says. The only possible way is if all children from the age of 6 years were taught and scared off about drug taking and drug dealing at infant school, and nobody who hasn’t attended school in this country was allowed in”. Then he laughs, can you ever see that happening”.
After our interview, he insists we replay the recorded interview from our dictophone before we leave then delete completely the contents of the interview from him. I trust you guys because of the link. I know you are doing your research and care about lives, but I a’int risking police getting that tape off you, I a’int letting my voice leave this yard on tape”. We oblige and spend the next hour going through the quotes which was also being written by one of us on shorthand as we were recording.
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