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image copyrightHala Mohamed He would do anything to push you to be your best self. He would want you to succeed before he would succeed.
Hala Mohamed is describing her childhood friend Richard Okorogheye.
They grew up together in the same west London block, where on summer days the whole neighbourhood would wake up early just to go downstairs and play .
Hala and Richard used to walk to school together, listening to music and talking about his dream of going to America.
On 22 March Richard was reported missing by his mum after leaving his family home in Ladbroke Grove. Two weeks later the 19-year-old s body was found in a pond in Epping Forest.
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A new report shows that British citizens who are missing abroad were more than twice as likely to be found by UK police as police in the country of disappearance.
Research by the Centre for the Study of Missing Persons (CSMP) at the University of Portsmouth also shows they were likely to be missing for much longer than if they d disappeared in the UK.
The study found that British people who vanish abroad tend to be missing for extended periods, on average 134 days. This compares with 88 percent of people who go missing in the UK being found within the first 48 hours.
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