RISE OF THE GIRL GANGS IN DRUGS
DRUG-dealing girl gangs are using knives to settle feuds.
The feral females are selling crack, heroin and skunk in cities and towns as part of money-spinning county lines operations.
And they are leaving a trail of bloodshed, stabbing any rivals who threaten their lucrative trade.
In London, 653 women and girls were attacked with knives from January to March this year, a Daily Star Sunday investigation can reveal.
A shocking 121 of the victims were teenagers and 104 were aged 20 to 24, freedom of information data from the Met police showed. Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham and Leeds have also seen a spike in girl gang assaults. In July, Katerina Makunova, 17, was found slumped in a pool of blood after a knife attack in a block of flats in Camberwell, south London. She died an hour later.
Last month a 16-year-old girl was arrested on suspicion of the murder of Ayodeji Habeeb Azeez, 22, from Dagenham, east London. He was stabbed to death by a mob in Anerley, south London.
Our investigator met three girl gangsters in a block of flats in Peckham, south London. Aged 17, 19 and 21, they were wearing hoodies and ripped jeans and all carried blades.
“They’re cheap, easy to use and get the job done,” said ‘Shan Shan’,
19, masked like the others to hide her identity. Her pal