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The phones lit up, with many callers ringing up to put Big Mags in the frame, exposing her as the big boss of a drug dynasty that ran heroin out of their flats.

Trasi said there was "no end of people ringing up, offering to help and contribute. It's really blown our minds with with how kind people have been".

"Even somebody ringing up and saying 'my bin hasn't been emptied' wasn't dealt with."

But somewhere along the way, the companies realized they could ring up steep profits at the expense of patients.

A mum with kids requiring refrigerated medicines for cancer rang up with her voice cracking because she could not afford her £5 prepayment top-up and asked to be put onto a credit direct debit.