'Impressionable' teen 'indoctrinated' by his gangster dad to become cocaine trafficker

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An 'impressionable' teenager was 'indoctrinated' by his gangster dad to become a cocaine trafficker for his crime empire, a court heard.

Brodie Stott, then 17, had been a law-abiding citizen until he moved in with his 42-year-old father Anthony Stott. Over a two year period - and under his dad's impression - Stott Jnr started by collecting drug debts from addicts, before he then sent out group texts marketing their illicit products then peddled crack on the streets from a car.

Both were arrested after police raided a lock-up and their shared property and found packages of cocaine and cannabis, four mobile phones and more than £4,000 in cash. Police claimed Stott Snr had also been in possession of a loaded firearm whilst his son carried a retractable baton as part of his drug debt collections activities.

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Text messages between them referred to high purity cocaine as 'raw power' and cannabis as 'bud' or 'cali', with Stott Jnr sending out a group text to addicts saying: '''Shout me for cali - its the cheapest your gonna get.''

At Minshull Street Crown Court on Thursday (April 28), Stott Jnr, now 20, was jailed for three years after admitting possession of drugs with intent to supply being concerned in the supply of Class A drugs between May 2019 and February 2021, acquiring criminal property and possessing an offensive weapon. One of the offences occurred whilst he was on bail and just two days before he was due to be sentenced.

Stott Snr was jailed for 58 months in October last year after he admitted being concerned in the supply of cocaine and cannabis and acquiring criminal property.