Damien Nettles: The boy who disappeared

Just putting this in here as the BBC News item didn't include the petition link.

And the link for the petition:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/164442

https://onthewight.com/family-of-damien-nettles-lodge-complaint-over-police-handling-of-missing-teenagers-case/

Article from the other day.

Andrew wrote:https://onthewight.com/family-of-damien-nettles-lodge-complaint-over-police-handling-of-missing-teenagers-case/

Article from the other day.

There is a petition to introduce Damien's Law at the link above, and more information on it :


The ACPO Manual of Guidance on the Management, Recording and Investigation of Missing Persons 2005 made some welcome revisions to the way that missing persons are dealt with by the police and this has continued through subsequent versions of the document.  Risk assessment is critical to determining the seriousness of the case and the document sets out a process for doing this. However, it fails to describe the risk factors used and no training programme has been developed to ensure that the police have sufficient knowledge of risk assessment or investigation of missing persons.
Some cases, with a particular concern for young males, continue to go under the radar. It seems that they are assumed to just go on a night out with no particular concerns being registered when they are reported missing.  This view is contrary to the findings of the report ‘Going missing on a night out,’ Missing People Research Summary (2011), with 17 people in one sample year and 22 in another being found dead. All were males.  This is in breach of the legal obligation set out in the Human Rights Act 1998 and the European Convention on Human Rights to protect life.