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How children's social worker, 27, led a double life running underground drug and gun network... and made vulnerable kids DELIVER for her

How children's social worker, 27, led a double life running underground drug and gun network... and made vulnerable kids DELIVER for her

Daily Mail​3 days ago
Dedicating her career to supporting vulnerable children, Chloe Scott was once a pillar of her community.
The London social worker, 27, boasted a dazzling CV centred around her experience in family safeguarding, protecting youngsters from harm.
But in reality Scott was living a double life, running a large-scale drug and firearm supply network across the capital with her right-hand man Miles Addy.
The pair sold cocaine and dangerous weapons across London and the south-east, including a gun used in a fatal shooting.
Most shockingly, under the guise of a person who cared for children, Scott was secretly ordering a 15-year-old boy to sell and transport drugs on her behalf.
This week she began a 12-year prison sentence after her twisted enterprise was exposed when the teen was stopped by police outside Tower Hill station in December 2022.
Officers searched the youngster and found drugs and a mobile phone Scott used to instructing him how to help run her drug network.
Armed Met Police officers stopped Scott's car in June 2023, finding around half a kilo of cocaine and five large hunting knives in her possession.
As the investigation intensified, detectives discovered Scott was in regular contact with Addy, a convicted criminal in jail for a firearms offence.
Addy was found to be directing Scott to various homes to deliver firearms and drugs to their customers.
In a harrowing development, detectives later found one of the weapons was a firearm linked to a serious murder investigation.
Meanwhile, another lethal firearm connected back to Scott and Addy was recovered during a warrant in November 2023. Joy Hyde-Coleman, 29, from Bow, was found to be in possession of the firearm and was later sentenced to five years in jail.
Scott and Addy were charged in August 2024, as officers worked with authorities to suspend Scott from her trusted role as a social worker.
Scott worked at various local authorities throughout her career, including a stunt at Bexley Council in south London, in 2023.
'Chloe Scott was a social worker supplied to us by an agency for a short period.
'We understand she has also worked at other local authorities,' a council spokesperson said.
Scott pleaded guilty on the first day of her trial at Snaresbrook Crown Court, while her accomplice Addy pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing.
Detective Inspector Damian Hill, from the Met's Specialist Crime team, said: 'As police officers we all too often see the devastating consequences of drugs and weapons on the streets of London. These dangerous offenders helped fuel violent crime and we won't stand for it.
'The overwhelming evidence we gathered, supported by British Transport Police and HM Prison and Probation Service left them with little choice but to admit to their offending and they will both now face lengthy prison sentences.
'Across the Met we remain committed to tackling violence and our hard work is paying off. Homicide and knife crime is down - and seen here we are also dismantling serious and organised crime groups.'
Scott previously pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy to supply Class A drugs, two counts of selling or transferring a firearm, one count of conspiracy to possess firearms, one count of conspiracy to possess ammunition, and one count of possession of hunting knives.
She also pleaded guilty to one count of causing unnecessary cruelty to a dog, showing just how far removed Scott really was from her caring disguise as a social worker.
Meanwhile, Addy pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy to supply Class A drugs, one count of conspiracy to possess firearms, and a further count of conspiracy to possess ammunition at an earlier hearing at the same court and was recalled to prison.
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