Student nurse missing last seen in Croydon

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How has this woman been missing for three weeks and we have barely had a sniff of it in the media. I hadn't seen anything at all until the last couple of days.

I don't believe that she has been found and can only hope this poor lady is found safe and well.

Which may well be for operational reasons.

I suspect it’s more a reflection of the number of people reported missing. Hundreds are reported missing each day. There simply isn’t enough police resource to focus on all of them. Many will appear or return quite quickly (sometimes they just walked out, sometimes it was all a misunderstanding). Therefore, unless a person is plainly high risk (eg child or known to be suicidal) and it justifies immediate attention, it’s quite normal and rational that the longer someone is missing, the more attention it then gets.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/aug/22/owami-davies-police-issued-cctv-images-showing-wrong-woman

FFS

MET POLICE have absolutely fucking butchered this case from the start. And now they've announced they've released photos of someone that wasn't even her.

They have made an absolute mockery and I hope her family sue.

So the Met now have suggested a scenario of her ‘sleeping rough’.

I’m not quite sure what to say any more, other than that it’s hard to comprehend this level of casual incompetence.

I agree, I used to work in the media and we’d get a press release a day from the local police about a missing person. Unless there were very interesting or unusual circumstances surrounding the disappearance then there’d be no reason to do more than publish the photo and story in the next edition and on SM. Which would then be taken down when they were found (which they mostly are IME).

However in this case the fact a force in special measures for sexism and racism put out the wrong picture of a missing black woman makes me utterly terrified for the state of the body that is supposed to protect us

100%

None of this adds up. The police's handling of this case is so bad it is almost unbelievable.

Just found this on the Mail Online website, way down the webpage.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11137327/Missing-Owami-Davies-Police-slammed-failures-search-student-nurse.html

'There's no excuse': Police are slammed for failures in search for Owami Davies after officers found student nurse sleeping in friend's doorway the same day she was reported missing (continues)

I think with Sarah Everard she

She's been found according to sky news!

YES! Oh please let that be accurate! A happy ending for once! 🙏🏻

news.sky.com/story/student-nurse-owami-davies-found-safe-and-well-in-hampshire-after-being-reported-missing-for-nearly-7-weeks-12679938

I'm so pleased she's been found and that her family don't have to sue their asses.

That's brilliant. The 'arrests on suspicion of murder' were obviously very concerning at the time, but this is great news.

Mail Online report

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11138573/Student-nurse-Owami-Davies-safe-Hampshire-eight-weeks-vanishing.html

So so happy she is found.

I'm very glad that she is safe and well, I had read a lot of reports on the BBC new site (probably because I always check London news). But I wonder what happened, that she was missing so long and didn't let her friends or family know that she was ok.

Was reading about this last night and it is shocking that it has taken so long for it to gain public attention. If this was a white girl/woman would be more media attention around it. I really hope this has a good outcome but it has been so long but hope she is found as her poor family must be in bits with stress and worry and also anger that it has not been at the forefront.

I really hope she has been found and not another fuck up report like they did with the wrong photo. Thankfully it is her and her family can rest and relax and hopefully find out what happened. So many young people going missing here in Ireland every day reading about another person and I find it shocking to be honest.

Well, it’s a relief she’s been found safe and well, but what a very strange story in that case! Police searching for weeks, family and friends presumably beside themselves with worry - I wonder what on earth she’s been doing for all those weeks?

How strange. What a lot of worry and resources used up for nothing.

I guess she went under the radar for her own reasons. Sounds like she may have had help though at some stage.