Brit teen reveals how she was kidnapped and forced to become drug mule after being lured on Facebook by evil gang leader
Malika Trotman, from North London, agreed to meet Mahad Yusuf for a date, before she was driven 200 miles to Swansea
A BRIT teenager has revealed how she was kidnapped and forced to become a drug mule after a gang member pursued her on Facebook.
Malika Trotman, from North London, agreed to meet Mahad Yusuf, 21, for a first date, before she was abducted and driven 200 miles to Swansea.
Yusuf first messaged criminology student Malika on Facebook, telling her how beautiful she was. He then began to pursue her on Instagram and Snapchat.
She told the : “I had no idea anything like this could ever happen.
“I just hope my story will help other people recognise warning signs when it comes to being befriended online.”
Criminology student Malika, who was 19 at the time, admits she "hadn't had that much attention" before she met Yusuf.
But the butterflies in her stomach suddenly turned to feelings of terror, when she got into his car and noticed other men inside.
She tried to escape but was dragged back into the car.
Yusuf, sat beside her in the back with another thug, and gang leader Fesal Mahamud, 20, was in the drivers seat.
As Mahamud drove the group to South Wales, Yusuf grabbed her mobile phone and said "you belong to me now".
Malika was physically and mentally tortured, sexually abused and forced to sell crack cocaine and heroin to local junkies.
Kept alive on scraps of food, she told how she was forced to hide bags of cocaine and heroin inside her body, and "pull them" from her insides whenever Mahamud received orders for drugs on his phone.
She told the newspaper: "I remember being really hungry all the time and missing my family.
"I thought I’d never see them again and that I’d die in that house.”
A "terrified" 15-year-old boy and a 14-year-old girl who were also forced to sell drugs at the property.
All three were rescued in a dramatic raid after cops searched through Malika's social media when she was reported missing.
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Muhamad was jailed for ten years and Yusuf for nine years for people trafficking and conspiracy to sell class A drugs.
Both men were also made the subject of a 20-year Slavery Trafficking Prevention Order.
It was the first such prosecution ever brought under the Modern Slavery Act of 2015.
It came amid a worrying trend as urban gangs in London, Merseyside and the West Midlands increasingly transport youngsters to country and coastal towns to sell drugs.
The drugs are ordered by phone from the city-based drug lord - hence being described by police as “county line” rackets - and then sold to locals by vulnerable youngsters under their command.
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