County Lines drug dealers get jail for Christmas

Three street gang members who ran a lucrative ‘county lines’ drugs trade on the south coast have been jailed for a total of 23 years. Lamar Foster, 26, Nathan Thompson, 32, and brother Jason Thompson, 36, headed a gang pushing class A narcotics, including cocaine, across Southampton. The men, who had links to street gangs in Hackney, sold drugs over a five year period using a dedicated phone line nicknamed the ‘Tim’ line. They were all arrested in April following…