Family of murdered boy decry Sussex police inaction after podcast findings

Vishal Mehrotra, eight, was abducted from Putney in 1981. His remains were later found in West Sussex. Photograph: handout

The family of a murdered schoolboy have criticised the police for a “baffling” failure to reinvestigate the case despite “significant” new evidence coming to light 42 years after he disappeared.

Vishal Mehrotra, eight, was abducted from west London in July 1981 and his remains were found in Rogate, West Sussex, seven months later. No one has been prosecuted for his murder.