Adam
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Categories: Cold Case News, Forensics, Unidentified
Tags: Autopsy, Crime Labs, Cruelty, Evidence, Forensics, London, Police, Ritual Killings, Torso, UK, Unidentified
Thank you Vidocq. Your article here shows the importance of the work that so many professionals do, in order to work towards solving these cases, as does Kew Gardens Video. You are a part of that right here.
Thank you very much! I am fascinated by their investigation! I hope that one day, we will know who Adam really was.
I’d also like to thank you for your support on Twitter! Cheers, Vidocq
What a great post about this amazing story – and thanks for embedding our video. We’re pleased you like it. If you’re interested in Kew’s work in this area, you can find out more about the Jodrell Laboratory (where the investigation took place) and ‘Plants in action’ at http://www.kew.org
Thanks, Claire!
I find the case and the investigation fascinating and am following on Twitter!
Keep up the great work you do!
Cheers, Vidocq
What really troubles me, is the fact, that the african woman turned to the police for help-at least that`s how it appears to me – and was suspected of participating in the crime. Surely she must have been desperate for her childrens saftety-otherwise she would not turn to a foreign in-her-eye”racist” police force-especially, if she stayed illegally in the U.K. Maybe the assassin/s brought several of these orange trousers and left one or two in her flat for her children. In this case, there must be a link between the woman and her aquaintances and the killing of Adam… Africans come and go in and out of flats of people they know.
Somehow I feel sorry, that the woman lost her children to an unknown foster family in Scotland.
Star0000
Thank you for commenting on Adam’s unsolved murder case. A multitude of questions remain open, alas. But, I have a few for you too:
Concerning the woman arrested in Scotland: I am not sure how she got arrested or whether she turned to police as you wrote. If she did, why? As far as I have been able to read up on her, nowhere did I find any expressions coming from her side regarding a racist police force. Where did you read that? Please provide the link so I can read that article too.
About the connections, I do believe that somehow everyone was instrumental but to what degree, the jury is out on that one. As police stated, the man arrested, Kingsley Ojo, may not have murdered Adam himself but definitely knows more and is somehow involved.
About the comings and goings…that is not limited to Africans. People of all walks of life, colours, and nationalities are in and out each others lives and residences.
Last, I’d like to know which woman you refer to at the end of your comment. The woman arrested by police has been “repatriated” to Nigeria and her file has been submitted to the Crown Prosecution Service. The woman Ojo was involved with was Barbara Bourne. She had lost a newborn son a few years before. Ojo used the dead boy’s birth certificate to obtain a driving licence and passport. There is no information that she had more children and whether she indeed lost them to a foster family. If so, why? Should you have more information about this as well, please provide the sources, links, etc so we all can read up on this.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts!
Hi Vidoq,
finally I turned to this website once more… To try to answer your question : the african woman ,named Joyce Osagiede, turned to the British Police in panic and claimed, that she fled a Yoruba Voodoo Cult who wanted to force her to sacrifice her children. She used to live in Germany before – as there were also links to the west-africans arrested later , who also stayed in Germany for some time.
The police surveyed her home in Dublin ? Glasgow ? and finally found an identical piece of orange shorts (produced in Germany or Austria) at her place. Later some of her acquaintances were arrested in connection with human trafficking, document fraud, illegal stay and tried in London, I believe.
She was also repatriated to Nigeria and sobbed during the flight for fear, that she will never see her children again.
I do not know, which article it was- since I read many of them in the meantime.
Star0000
Thanks for checking back with me and for updating your comments. It remains a strange case and I’d love to have more information so, should you come across those articles again, send me the link!
Cheers, Vidocq
Hi Vidocq,
it should work out, once you google the name of the african woman…I did not claim, that the british police is racist, allthough I am pretty sure, that the police force is under enormous stress. Sometimes there are also reports via youtube, that do support this point of view.
I simply think, that it must have been an enormous burden – IN CASE, the person stayed in Britain illegally – for her to turn to the police for help. In my opinion, she would ONLY do so, if she was really desperate and truly feared for the life of her children. In the end she became a prime suspect herself.
Regards, Star0000
‘Adam’ now has a strong candidate name and age: Ikpomwosa, age 6 years, and an apparent route to the UK.
From Wikipedia, referencing the UK newspaper ‘The Sun’: “On 29 March 2011, it was discovered that the torso belonged to that of 6-year old, Ikpomwosa, after a TV-Crew managed to track down a woman who used to care for him in Germany, due to his parents being deported back to Nigeria. Mother of 2, Joyce Osiagede had told ITV London Tonight that she handed the 6-year old to a man – reportedly named Bawa, who proceeded to take the child to London. Detectives have said that this is a ‘major breakthrough.”
Thanks, Rick, for the update! Much appreciated.