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This is the final part of a series by HuffPost UK about county lines drug dealing in Britain.
One afternoon in August 2018, two officers knocked on Abdi’s mum’s door and confirmed the worst: eight months after he had gone missing, her son’s body had been found.
“I’d routinely walk to a nearby creek just to see if his body would wash up there,” she told HuffPost UK.