Ozi Akerele, a Nigerian student who had been declared missing for a year, has been found dead. Coventrytelegraph.net reports that the body of the 24-year-old student of Coventry University, England was discovered on Thursday last week.
The West Midlands police on Tuesday, April 26, disclosed that the body was found by young boys playing football at about 5pm on the day the body was found. According to the report, the young boys had kicked a football into a disused Coventry churchyard, off Albert Fearns Garden, in Foleshill, and only found the body when they climbed over a fence to retrieve the ball.
Police sources informed that although formal identification is yet to take place, the body is believed to be that of the 24-year-old Nigerian who had been missing since a night out with friends on January 31, 2015. “A post mortem examination carried out was inconclusive and further tests will be carried out to establish the cause of death, although detectives do not believe it to be suspicious.
“It’s believed that Akerele took a wrong turn on his walk home after a night out. “He was last seen in Old Church Road at 7.50am when he tried to flag down a motorist for help. “His last movements were caught on CCTV,” the police source further noted. The mother of one of the boys who found the deceased, told police officers on the condition of anonymity that, “My son and his friend were playing football and the ball went over the fence in to the churchyard. “His friend jumped over the fence and saw something, so he shouted my lad who also went over the fence and saw it also.
“They went to get the other boy’s mother who wasn’t sure what it was and thought it may have been a Halloween outfit or something like that. “They got another adult who said it was definitely a body and the police were called. My boy was really upset and both boys have been really quiet. “The police were really lovely with both of them and I tried to explain to my lad that hopefully the person’s family can now have some closure.”
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