What took Sonya Jones from a small village on the Shropshire border with Wales, to a nationally-recognised authority on child exploitation and safeguarding?

And how did the tragic, violent death of a teenager from Merseyside on a Shrewsbury housing estate begin to unlock the mechanisms and the sordid mysteries of county-lines drug trafficking?

More by Sonya Jones:

‘'I wasn't a gangster, just a kid from Shropshire': how drugs gangs are exploiting lockdown’

‘County lines, a complex national problem explained’

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