A man who used a teenager as a drug runner has been issued with the first modern slavery order in Shropshire.
The court heard the defendant befriended a 15-year-old boy in March 2022, buying him expensive gifts to encourage him to carry drugs around Telford. At the hearing on Monday, the man was also told the order included limitations in his use of devices connected to the internet.
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