If You Don't Know - The Richard Okorogheye Story

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

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Published on Thursday, 29th April 2021.

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