The Boy in the River: A Shocking True Story of Ritual Murder and Sacrifice in the Heart of London by Richard Hoskins

Author:Richard Hoskins [Hoskins, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Non-Fiction
ISBN: 9781447207917
Google: it48Wn7uVV4C
Publisher: Pan Books
Published: 2012-06-07T07:00:00+00:00

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London, December 2002

In December the Home Office dropped a bombshell.

The immigration authorities had been alerted to Joyce Osagiede’s case. They ruled that she had not followed correct asylum procedures and had lied about her country of origin. She would not be allowed to keep her children and she would be deported.

The police protested that they still had questions for Joyce, and that several lines of inquiry might still show that she or her associates had been involved in some way with Adam, but this fell on deaf ears. The Home Office decreed that unless she was charged immediately, she must be returned to Nigeria. There was no question of arresting her a second time. Apart from her immigration violations, there was no evidence that she had done anything wrong. Accordingly, she was picked up by immigration officers and placed in Northolt Detention Centre pending deportation.

Later that month, with as little publicity as possible and at taxpayers’ expense, the Home Office hired a private executive jet to fly her back to Nigeria. The jet had last been used by a world famous footballer. Now Will, Nick and Joyce Osagiede, violator of immigration rules and possible associate of murder suspects, were the only passengers. The plane landed at Lagos and Joyce Osagiede was taken through Nigerian immigration.

And then she was set free.

I heard about this on the phone from Will O’Reilly. I was as incredulous as he was. After the discovery of the clothes in her flat, her link with Germany and what she had said about her involvement with a Yoruban cult, I couldn’t believe anyone would have sent her back to Africa.

‘There may be method in somebody’s madness,’ Will said loyally. ‘If we’d kept sniffing around her it might have scared off some bigger game.’

I wasn’t convinced. I suspected some stickler for the rules in the corridors of power had failed to see how important she might have been to the inquiry.

‘You can’t hold people without charge,’ Will said. ‘Not in the UK. And, besides, the order to send her back came right from the top, and I mean the top. It’s unfortunate, but these things happen.’

Ironically, within days of her deportation, police inquiries into Joyce’s life in Germany began to yield dramatic results.

German social services revealed that she had arrived in Germany via Italy in 1992 under her alias of Bintu Kadade, a year after her partner, Ibrahim Kadade. He was undoubtedly the man known to UK police as her husband Sam, who was still on the run. Joyce’s two children, whom the Germans knew as Esther and Eseoghen, had been born in Germany in 1997 and 1999. Her first child, a son, was reported dead at birth in 1995. That matched the year Joyce had given the British team for Sam Onojhighovie’s sacrifice of the boy. The two daughters had briefly attended a nursery near Hamburg in September 2001.

Will and Nick went to Germany to interview staff at the nursery. The girls had only been there for two weeks, but a local woman, Frau Dibbern, had fostered them for a short while.

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