A man who took over a vulnerable man’s Northampton home to sell drugs from it has been jailed for seven years

Hannah Price

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Brett James Franks, aged 46, of no fixed address, was arrested on January 6 this year after a man contacted Northamptonshire Police to say Franks had taken over his home, a practice known as cuckooing, and had been selling Class A drugs from the property.

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