Inside ‘Cuckooing’: How gangs take over vulnerable people’s homes | BBC News
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Hundreds, if not thousands, of people's homes are being taken over by criminals every week in the UK, usually to store and deal drugs, police chiefs have told the BBC.
UK needs to spend more on police
Perpetrators of so-called cuckooing often target vulnerable people, including the elderly or disabled, by forcing themselves into homes to carry out illegal acts. In some cases drug users are exploited by gangs who move in and refuse to leave.
I’m sorry but this has been happening for a very long time and the police force knows about this, the council who is inspecting homes, they also know about this, but they brush it under the carpet. Most of these vulnerable persons are in council homes, they should spend less time checking if you have 50 pence more than you’re allowed or checking car parking and more on their vulnerable residents.
Cuckooing is not yet a specific criminal offence so there is limited data on how widespread it is.
I live in the USA. I’ve heard of a story like this but it was a trafficking case where a mentally vulnerable daughter and her elderly mother were befriended or forced into a relationship with a drug addicted couple who took them in and offered to help and care for them as disabled. They ended up holding them hostage in broad daylight for years, stole all their disability checks and medications, and subjected them to daily cruelty and enslavement. People saw them but nobody knew they were held against their wishes and subjected to this.
Anyway, these gangs or collection of thugs that do this need to be exposed. They don’t need to be on Tik Tok because their crime method will go viral and others may copy it for thrills.
Can you do a show on how to detect a cuckooer or detect if a person/friendship or a guest is starting to move you in this direction and how to get help or escape before it’s too late and you are now held hostage in your own home with your hands tied up and completely powerless against these dealers, Emil’s, or thugs who’ve probably been doing this for decades to people and escaping public eye or detection? It’s great that a light is being shined on their crime. Awareness and exposure makes it difficult for a criminal to keep victimizing others and preying on vulnerable peoples
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Hmm well it can be said the same about the tv licenseand police fines ... One in the same is it not
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I so it in Doncaster 7 years a go..
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BBC’s headline ‘Man taken to hospital with serious injuries after stabbing’ 🤷♂️ what? so just your average garden variety stabbing?!
@ItsJonesTheCatAsk pierce Morgan what cuckolding is
@Emernator84Was starting to happen with my neighbour by another neighbour (using her house for storage etc), she was even attacked by their dog but we got the gp involved as she was bleeding and those other neighbours started to keep their distance. Anyone can do it. Terrible.
@jabberjaw84This is why they have social workers or have assisted living!!
@jabberjaw84This is first world country? So bad.
@IbnEl-elyonsquatting 🚴🏿
@BuffetBuffSO YOU TAKE COMMENTS OFF WHEN STORY HOT YOU ERASE WHEN TOTALLY ASININE STARMER COMMENTING on 1 way n then complete REVERSAL 4 LAST STORY ON STABBING
@jimmiejones-w3bbbc is flying all spices of birds in iran
@auro1986and bbc pumps money into ukraine and gaza
@auro1986God please we have had Enough...Evil has taken over and now its time....Only you and only you can STOP this now...
@newuknbfun8415Isn't that when European couples go to the Gambia for "fun time" oh that's called something similar 😂 good night BBC
@jerrycostanza4180We need to talk about civil whites
@curiositycloset2359Trap houses/"Cuckooing" are the same as the opium dens back in the 1800's. This is hardly anything new
@carolinebjerkelund767Unfkingbelievable. You've got to be lower than a cockroach's asse to do this. Poor guy, he just didn't know because of his brain damage. A vulnerable guy like this should have support, not be left alone like this! Disgraceful country we now live in.
@bereal6590This country is DISGUSTING now and I can't see it getting any better now unfortunately 😢😢 The government doesn't care and even seem to encourage criminals by giving no harsh prison time for crimes 🤔🤔 plus day by day we get more and more crooks coming over via the English channel to add to the chaos
@AdrianJames-l7cOur whole country has been 'cuckooed'.
@Dani-El.bbc presenters molesting kids is way worse
@ImCastroFingersWhish someone cuckolded me
@CursethemJits called the trap, btw not cuckoo
@ImCastroFingersLord Lucan has been cockooing at my drum for over 50 years
@martingrimsted5017I hope these gangs get to serve a lengthy term of prison. I also hope the victims receive all the care and attention they need to recover.
It is sad to think that some people have absolutely no one to check on them from time to time.
How do they always find them?
@orfordwolf5409I saw the raw footage of the Belfast incident. That was BRUTAL.
@VivaLaRymanYou’ve got drug ‘dealers’ who sell drugs to the homeless, who have nothing, and see those people every day struggling. That’s what is happening in today’s world - I once saw a pregnant woman, hustling in a Safeway parking lot. Obviously drug addicted, her pimp hanging out in the shadows by the propane tanks cage on his phone. I took a picture and she was worried about me, not herself
@lesliepropheter5040IF GAS PRICES GO UP, EVERYTHING ELSE GOES UP TOO.
@JamesHetfield66DONALD TRUMP IS THE MOST DECENT AND MOST TRUSTWORTHY PERSON I KNOW.
@JamesHetfield66Are UK asleep??
First time i heard of it personally , was -98
And i live in Stockholm suburbs...
Reporting only what the stinking BBC wants is not news it's gossip
@Ashleyv316stonecoldTypical BBC so-called News in not dealing with serious current issues. Do I really pay a fee for this crap? The UK is on the verge of exploding, and the BBC chooses to ingnore the main story.
@EdExploresScotlandHow would you solve it?
@Graham-s1nThe U.S. also has a problem with Cuckooing....Some criminal has taken over the White House and is refusing to leave. So far he's destroyed the West Wing ..a Pool...and he's bringing his friends over for a big fight on the front lawn....
@PIG-k2mIn the United States too
@TheCraziestCatLady.Anything on the stabbing of a 15 year old in Belfast?
@DASkarsgard117To abuse and take advantage of a man who has literal brain damage has got to be the lowest form of a human scum!!.. Absolutely disgusting
@mikerotonda6264No different from when a parasite takes over a caterpillar's brain and reduce its host to a zombie status....
Very foul, this parasitic gangs
You're only a cuckoo if you watch the BBC
@whoflungdung1046House cucks. Letting people live at your house while you watch
@L-nh2vqIt is heroin slavery. You will recognise 100s of religions and genders but not the lack of police action against slave producing class A drugs. You have been asking for war for 30 years. And i want to give it to you
You (police) are not an authority in this country
And you are not my damn citizens.
So there is another form of cuckooing.
@KarlWomackCuckass bbc closed the comments again
you dont hate the msm enough
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Beheadings in the UK, buses secretly moving across the UK at night dropping off migrants. How evil are our Politicians. ?
@IsclachauNo news on the Ireland attempted attack? Don't suprise me at all with this sewage outlet.
@The-truth894Get Starmer involved, he's great at smashing the gangs.
@Drum-h34tIn America most of the old and vulnerable live on the streets. 😂
@Highwaysong007