Shocking moment boy sells drugs to his own pram-pushing mother

This is the shocking moment a county lines drug dealing child was caught on camera selling drugs to his own pram-pushing mother. 

The disturbing footage has been released by West Mercia Police as a part of short documentary-style video revealed how the force smashed a drug gang and jailed its members a for a total of 70 years.

In the video, a group of young children - who were recruited by the gang to sell crack cocaine and heroin to addicts in the Shropshire town of Oswestry - can be seen loitering in what appears to be a park. 

The children are approached by a woman pushing a pram who is then seen being handed something by one of the boys. 

In a distressing twist, it has been revealed that the woman buying Class A drugs is the boy's mother. 

Further footage in the eight minute video shows children messing around in a playground before they sell drugs to an older woman.

The children were offered money and expensive items in return for selling illegal substances.  

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The aftermath of gang leader Adam McArdle's attack on a 31-year-old woman who owed £500 in drug money is also shown. The woman was left with life-changing injuries after a vicious knife attack.

He wanted to show what would happen to other drug users if they did not pay their debts on time.

Police launched a major surveillance operation to take the gang down after the horrific attack on January 7, 2019.

Police identified McArdle,28,  and the two Mason brothers as well as 11 other gang members and started a surveillance operation of the group. 

They uncovered that the McArdle and brothers James, 33, an Josh Mason, 25, ran a Liverpool-based drugs gang in charge of the 'Boris' line. 

On February 18, 2019, two of the dealers working for the Boris line were arrested and quizzed about the structure of the gang.

Body-cam footage from July 11 2020 shows the moment officers raided the Mason brothers’ homes in Merseyside and arrested a total of seven suspects.

During a search of James Mason’s house officers seized £22,000 worth of drugs he had thrown into a neighbour’s garden as police swooped.

Officers also found cash and a receipt for a Rolex watch worth over £4,500.

A Samsung mobile phone hidden under a sofa also contained numbers of dealers and people selling the drugs for the gang in Oswestry.

Just hours later, and after hearing about the arrests of his two partners, McArdle continued to sell drugs in the town.

He was later arrested and he and the Mason brothers admitted to supplying heroin, crack cocaine as well as modern-day slavery.

McArdle was also convicted for the knife attack on the woman and was jailed for life.

James Mason was jailed for ten years while his brother Josh was sentenced to eight years in prison.

A total of 14 defendants were convicted of being involved with the Boris line and were jailed for a total of 70 years in prison.

Jurors heard that between July 2018 and February 2020 the gang sold more than £100,000 worth of drugs in the town.