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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Vikram Dodd Police and crime correspondent

Watchdog finds Met police failings in Richard Okorogheye disappearance

Richard Okorogheye
Richard Okorogheye had sickle cell anaemia and left his west London home without his medication. Photograph: PA

The family of a vulnerable black teenager who went missing and then was found dead were failed by the Metropolitan police when they most needed them, the police watchdog has found.

The desperate family of Richard Okorogheye, 19, were told by one call handler: “If you can’t find your son, how do you expect us to?” which the Met has accepted was insensitive.

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