Women being forced into sex to pay drug debts as intimidation rises

Some women who owe a drugs debt are paying it off by being brought to hotels and forced to have sex with men as payment, research has found.

Children as young as 10 are being used by drug gangs to intimidate people in communities plagued by the drugs trade, Government-funded research has found.

It said some women who owe a drugs debt are paying it off by being brought to hotels and forced to have sex with men as payment.