The street less than two minutes from a school plagued by ‘blatant drug dealers’

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People living in a street where a suspected crack den was raided by police last week have revealed they see ‘blatant’ drug dealing and people ‘off their heads’ every day.

Police arrested two people on suspicion of dealing the crack cocaine after they carried out a warrant at a property in George Street, Weston-super-Mare, North Somerset last Wednesday.

Since the news emerged, Metro has spoken to residents living in George Street, located less than a two minute walk from Christ Church C of E Primary school, about drug use and anti-social behaviour in the area.

One resident, who did not wish to be identified, shared CCTV clips of people walking down an alleyway in the street, which they say is frequented by drug dealers and users. It is a dead end and leads to a garage, they explained.

They said: ‘The brashness of the drug taking is shocking. They are sitting on kerbs out of their heads.

‘A couple of weeks ago a bloke, who was completely off his head, sat down in the street for 15 minutes before he sobered up enough to carry on walking.

‘There are kids playing on the street. We really care about these kids and they’re on the street running around, playing and doing the normal stuff that kids do.

‘They are adorable and very polite and we are very annoyed as a community that they have all this drug taking and dealing going on around them.

‘Some of the people on the street live alone and aren’t steady on their feet.

One resident said they saw a group of women ‘off their heads’ on drugs in the street on New Year’s Eve.