12 years for ‘county lines’ drug dealer

The organiser of a ‘county lines drugs’ gang has been jailed for 12 years for pushing crack and heroin into the Surrey commuter belt. Tyrone Jones, 29, preyed upon vulnerable addicts like ‘a cuckoo who comes along and lays drugs in your nest.’ Patricia Slater, 27, his girlfriend, Sisco Lukuna, 22, Ian Mulgrew, 39, and Sandra McCowan, 38, were deployed by Jones to smuggle up to two-and-half kilos of class ‘A’ drug into Merstham. Judge Nigel Seed, QC, said: ‘This…