Hundreds of people have shared a missing persons appeal about a teenager from Surrey. But Surrey police have confirmed that they have no reports about him, and the picture appears to have been taken from a news story about a teenager in Australia.
A boy called ‘Andrew Sanders’ is missing in Surrey.Surrey Police have confirmed that they have received no reports about this boy, and the picture used appears to have been taken from an Australian news report. We’ve seen many similar missing person posts before.
Police have confirmed that a supposedly missing child from Surrey, whose details have been shared more thanAppealing to Facebook users in Farnham, Surrey, the post features a picture of a child alongside the caption: “This is the most recent picture of my son Andrew Sanders his first day of school, he left yesterday morning for school and he never came back. [sic]
“He was last seen wearing black converses with purple and red shoelaces as well as a blue zip-up hoodie, he has dirty blonde hair, blue eyes and he’s about 5’4-5’5 and 124lb.” However, an official Surrey Police Facebook page has confirmed that it has received no reports of this case, and urged social media users not to share the post.: “We are aware of reports in a local social media group regarding a missing child from Farnham called Andrew Sanders. We appreciate this has caused concern and would like to clarify that we currently have no reports of a missing child called Andrew Sanders in Surrey.
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