A Tale of Two Trap Houses: Being Cuckooed Ruined My Friend's Life, but Did It Then Help Save Him?

“Community safety teams, who rescued 80 tenants in London in 2005, were the first to call the tactic ‘cuckooing’.”

Gangs spread out of London, Liverpool and Birmingham and needed bases in small towns. The cheapest base is someone else’s home. Britain named the tactic in 2005. Two decades on, the gangs still find hosts.