The Met Police has rejected claims of 'racial bias' over its handling of the Owami Davies disappearance case.
Ex-Met Police Chief Supt Dal Babu has suggested there could be racial bias at play in missing persons investigations
Critics, including ex-Met Ch Supt Dal Babu, queried whether the force had treated the disappearance of a black woman as seriously as a white woman.Former Ch Supt Dal Babu wrote an opinion piece in the Guardian, which was headlined: "What would the Owami Davies case look like if she were a blonde white woman?"
The Met also issued incorrect CCTV images of a woman, who was not Ms Davies, as part of a public appeal to find the 24-year-old. Correct images were subsequently made available. The Met has said it will carry out a review of all its actions from when Owami was first reported missing, along with Essex Police, the force which first handled the case.
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