The rise is according to Europol’s 2025 EU Serious and Organised Crime Threat Assessment, which has discovered how the ‘DNA of organised crime’ is changing, with females gaining more prominent roles in global gang networks. Criminologist Alex Iszatt tells The Sun: “Gangster women have always existed within organised crime structures, but they have rarely been recognised as central figures of power and that long-standing misjudgement has been consistently exploited. No, come on!”Another improbable drug baron is Morag Yorston, a drug-dealing crime gang boss who flooded the streets of Dundee with heroin and cocaine. Police attention remains fixed on younger, violent men, which creates a blind spot that older women can operate within,” she says. “Two things can be true at one time,” said Haney’s granddaughter Cassie, following her death from cancer in 2013.

Source: The Star January 27, 2026 18:46 UTC