Six men accused of involvement in county lines drug-dealing are facing a retrial after the jury was discharged.

Woolwich Crown Court heard two teenage girls were enslaved to sell Class A drugs to addicts in Maidstone between June and July last year.

The girls, aged 16, were allegedly taken to the town, via a flat in Gravesend, from London and ordered to deal crack cocaine and heroin.

A flat at Midhurst Court in Mote Road, Maidstone, was said to have been used as a base.

A judge halted the case on Thursday for legal reasons. He made an order that the addresses of the defendants or the area in which they live should not be published at this stage.

Reis Bhandal, 18, Odain Miller, 18, Peace Alaka, 18, Gavin Bond, 34, and Andrew Cooke, 61, deny being concerned in the supply of crack cocaine and heroin between June 24 and July 10 last year.

Bhandal, Miller, Alaka and Cooke deny two offences of arranging or facilitating travel of another person with a view to exploitation, known as modern slavery, between July 5 and 10 last year.

Bhandal, Miller, Alaka, Malki Murray, 18, and Bond deny being concerned in the supply of crack cocaine and heroin between July 11 and 20 last year.

Miller denies possessing crack cocaine with intent to supply on July 19 last year. Murray denies possessing crack cocaine and heroin and possessing a blade on July 19 last year.

Miller, 17 at the time, is the first juvenile to face a charge of modern slavery.