From the Times and the Sunday Times, this is the story.
I'm David Wood.
I'm the crime editor at the Times.
One night last year, I arrived back at my station in South London in the early hours of the morning.
I went to collect a train ticket, and as I stood at the machine, I noticed a couple of kids.
They couldn't have been older than 13.
On their own, in the middle of the night,
a rucksack on their back and an ancient phone in one of their hands.
I watched as they waited.
People streamed past and paid them no attention.
But I recognised the signs.
As a crime reporter, I spent hours sitting on press benches in courts all around the country.
And I 've seen these kids, or kids like them,
in the dock, looking bored as their barristers explain how they got
wrapped up in selling Class A drugs for county lines gangs.
Now, we've been talking about county lines all week.
Focusing on how the police had been fighting back against drug organisations in York.
But that moment in the station made me want to hear directly
from the children actually involved in County Lines.
And then I met Mike.