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AIBU to ask what is happening in Middlesbrough at the moment?

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Netcurtainnelly · 26/08/2026 13:16

What's going on in Middlesbrough anyone live there?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gmrz8d31mo

This house fire may be linked to criminal activities at the weekend, where the policemen were killed.

Just before the crash on Saturday somebody's house had been rammed with a vehicle doing extensive damage to the house? They set out in their car trying to find them and retaliate.

It said it's happened to other houses as well?

Is this all linked to drugs?

It's horrible. Where's it going to end? Why would you want to be mixed up in all that?
Is it worth your life?

A police officer is stood facing a badly burnt property. The roof has caved in and exposed the wooden beams. An alley runs down next to the property and it has a wooden fence on one side

Middlesbrough murder investigation as two people die in fire

Cleveland Police says it "cannot rule out any links to wider organised crime" after the fire near Middlesbrough.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gmrz8d31mo

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Emowoman90 · 26/08/2026 13:34

Netcurtainnelly · 26/08/2026 13:26

Says they cannot rule it out that they are linked.

Houses have been rammed too in the area.

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One house was rammed that was the father to one of the boys that was killed in the crash, even if it was linked assuming right now is how rumours go around and it creates so much diverse. A lot of county lines are happening around these places, I only live half an hour away, we have a lot of it in the village I'm living in, I get so scared for my boys as two are teenagers and can be easily led, I keep telling them to not listen and tell me if they ever get asked or pressured into doing these awful things.

fuzzwuss · 26/08/2026 13:26

It was absolutely related, the house was rammed and one of the residents of the house chased the car that had crashed into the house, and was one of the 5 killed.

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Netcurtainnelly · 26/08/2026 13:26

Mumdiva99 · 26/08/2026 13:19

There is nothing in the article to say they are linked. Just that they were near each other.
Why do you say its linked?

Says they cannot rule it out that they are linked.

Houses have been rammed too in the area.

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Dabralor · 26/08/2026 13:25

There is a lot of county lines stuff round there, it goes down in to North Yorkshire too.
I expect, in Line of Duty lingo, there is a massive OCG and they are all fighting and settling scores with one another.

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Netcurtainnelly · 26/08/2026 13:24

Error404FucksNotFound · 26/08/2026 13:18

I expect it will be drug gang wars related.

Sake, is it worth it?👎
These people are going to end up dead, killing others or going to prison?

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Messedupmyusernameagain · 26/08/2026 13:21

Mumdiva99 · 26/08/2026 13:19

There is nothing in the article to say they are linked. Just that they were near each other.
Why do you say its linked?

The rammed house was the house of the father of one of the dead boys. They have arrested about 17 people in relation to the incident, so added to the 5 dead thats an awful lot of people for it not to be gang related.

Mumdiva99 · 26/08/2026 13:19

There is nothing in the article to say they are linked. Just that they were near each other.
Why do you say its linked?

Error404FucksNotFound · 26/08/2026 13:18

I expect it will be drug gang wars related.

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