‘I was a prisoner in my home’: Drug gangs ‘cuckooing’ hundreds of homes a week, police warn

“We’ve had cases where they’ve been forced to eat dog excrement or perform sexual acts, and those will be recorded and then used as a form of blackmail for the perpetrator to say ‘if you don’t do as I say, then ultimately we’ll share this with friends and we’ll put this on social media’,” the NPCC’s Kirsten Dent, told the BBC.