He was reported missing two days later. As somebody with sickle cell disease, Mr Okorogheye would only leave the house to go to hospital for regular blood transfusions for his condition. But on the night he disappeared he left the house without his medication, wallet or coat and his mum made desperate pleas to the public for help to find him. Community nurse Ms Joel previously spoke of her son struggling to cope with university pressures and shielding during the Covid-19 lockdown. In one of the first confirmed sightings on March 22, he was seen boarding the number 23 bus southbound in Ladbroke Grove at 8.44pm.
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Metropolitan Police officers at the scene at the Wake Valley pond in Epping Forest following the discovery of a man s body. (Image: Ian West/PA Wire)
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