{"id":78397,"date":"2025-08-08T19:02:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T19:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=78397"},"modified":"2025-08-08T19:02:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T19:02:01","slug":"big-mags-the-paedophile-hunting-granny-who-built-a-heroin-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/08\/08\/big-mags-the-paedophile-hunting-granny-who-built-a-heroin-empire\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Mags: The paedophile-hunting granny who built a heroin empire"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/1104\/cpsprodpb\/77f7\/live\/c5cfd770-7425-11f0-ab85-c1ec8d2f110b.jpg\" alt=\"Big Mags on Kilroy. It is a grabbed image from the show. It is a close-up of Haney with her hand out, pointing accusingly. She has bleached blonde hair and a big gold earring.\" width=\"654\" height=\"368\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">In January 1997, long before the modern phenomenon of online \u201cpaedophile hunters\u201d, a Scottish grandmother found overnight fame when she successfully drove a convicted child sex offender out of the Raploch housing estate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c07p9ng1zvno\">Read More<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>In January 1997, long before the modern phenomenon of online \u201cpaedophile hunters\u201d, a Scottish grandmother found overnight fame when she successfully drove&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Margaret-Big-Mags-Haney.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78399,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78397\/revisions\/78399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}