BLUE PLAGUE PILLS PUBLIC ENEMY NO1
Olly’s kilty pleasure Police pledge action over killer street Valium after 2m pills are found in raid
DARING Olly Murs let it all hang out backstage at the Hydro in a kilt posing pouch. He’d kept fans in Glasgow in suspense after one of them gave him the £7.50 thong. But after his show at the Hydro on Saturday night, he whipped off his stage gear and emerged in the pouch.
Olly, 32, performed a nutty dance for the camera.
He posted his tartan antics on Twitter and Instagram, writing: “Glasgow, I promised I would.” KILLER “blue plague” fake Valium pills have been made a top priority by Police Scotland.
After officers seized more than two million pills from a suspected drugs factory in Paisley, police said gangsters are churning out more and more of the pills to satisfy rising demand.
The Record has repeatedly warned that the pills, which can be bought for just 50p, are deadly when taken in large numbers and combined with alcohol or other drugs like methadone or heroin.
Detective Superintendent Stephen Grant said: “The criminals are using their expertise to produce illegal drugs and new substances, which are often classed under the new psychoactive substances legislation.
“Criminal gangs often control the entire operation from production and distribution to supply, with national and local networks.
“The criminals do this with little regard for the misery this causes communities and families.”
Raids in street Valium hotspots such as Possilpark, Glasgow, have taken hundreds of thousands of pills off the street.
The latest bust proves the huge scale of the problem, which the Record believes is being inadequately addressed by both health bosses and police. Our NICOLA Do not gag the Press stories have told how low level dealers spread the drugs on the streets. In Possilpark, they hide their stash in closes and gardens to avoid arrest.
We have told of clusters of deaths in Ayr, Renfrew, Dundee, and Glasgow’s Toryglen – where six friends died within months of each other after taking a street version of sedative Valium.
People affected have been critical of police.
Despite relatives of the Toryglen victims repeatedly giving the names of dealers to police, raids only took place after our revelations were brought to the attention of First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who demanded a firm response.
Det Supt Grant said: “I want to be very clear. Targeting criminals involved in drugs is a priority for Police Scotland.”
Police confirmed three men, 43, 42 and 38, were arrested in the Paisley raid.
Criminal gangs control the entire operation
DET SUPT GRANT