Prisoner ran East Midlands teen drug ring from jail

A prisoner who used teenagers to run drugs across county lines has been sentenced to 10-and-a-half years. Shaun Lau, 30, admitted running the network in which young people were recruited by gangs in large cities to sell drugs in rural areas. Drug orders were taken by phone and teenagers from Nottingham would be sent to deliver, Nottingham Crown Court heard. Lau ran the operation from HMP Hewell in Worcestershire. He was one of 14 sentenced for conspiracy to supply Class A drugs.