The Richard Okorogheye Story

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What happens when your best friend goes missing? Richard Okorogheye and Hala Mohamed grew up together in the same west London block. But last month, two weeks after his mum reported him missing, Richard’s body was found in a forest in Essex. Richard is one of thousands of Black Brits who go missing every year. In fact, Black people in England and Wales are more likely to go missing than white people. What’s going on? 00:00 Hello DG and Roshan 05:00 Missing people this year 07:42 In conversation with Hala Mohamed 09:00 Hala talks about what Richard was like 12:16 What happened when Richard went missing 17:13 The campaign to find Richard 18:15 How Hala's doing 19:04 Prank calls 21:23 The police response to Richard going missing 24:43 What Hala wants people to know about Richard 25:16 Reflections from DG and Roshan 26:39 Why do so many Black people go missing? 27:29 What is Social Exclusion Theory? 29:01 Chatting to Sadia Ali from the charity Minority Matters about missing people and county lines 31:02 More reflections 33:31 See you next week Hosts: De-Graft Mensah and Roshan Roberts Producers: Kameron Virk, Seren Jones and Jack Suddaby Sound Designer: Jack Suddaby Assistant Editor: Sam Bonham Editor: Dino Sofos If you have been affected by anything we talk about in today’s podcast, please check out bbc.co.uk/actionline.