CHELMSFORD—An inquest into the death of a black teenager who was found dead in a lake in Epping Forest has heard he drowned and was already dead when his mother reported him missing.
Richard Okorogheye, 19, left his home in Ladbroke Grove, west London, on the evening of March 22, 2021 and his mother, Evidence Joel, reported him missing at around 6:51 p.m. the following day, when he failed to return home.
At the time she criticised the police’s handling of the missing person inquiry, and said because he had sickle cell anaemia and had left home without his medication he should have been treated as a more urgent priority….