‘It took Cops Two Years to Investigate My Son Being Missing – I Still Call HIS NAME’ – ryan
Speaking to the Mirror As Part of Our Missed Campaign, Mum Nerissa Tivy Says She Was Ignored by Police for Two Years Her Son Alexander Went Missing – Now the Met Have in a Bid to Find Him
08:24, 31 Mar 2025Updated 22:59, 31 Mar 2025
On Mother’s Day Four Mums Shared Their Pain With Our Readers – Speaking Movingly About the Special Day With Their Missing Sons, as we launched Our missed Campaign. Now the Police Are Offering a £ 10,000 Reward for Information Relation to the Unsolved Disappearans of One of Ther, North Londoner Alexander Sloley, Who Went Missing 16 Years Ago – Two before HIS 17TH BIRTHDAY.
Detective Chief Inspector Sarb Kaur, Who Is Leading the Investigation, TELLS The Mirror: “Alexander Sloley Was Reported Missing to Police on August 8, 2008. SINCE THERE HAVE BEEN ENQUIRIES Made by Police, but Sadly alex Has Not Been Located £ 10,000 Reward for Any Person Has Has Information Relation to Alex’s Whereabouts. ”
While his mum, Nerissa Tivy, 56, Welcomes the New Appeal, Sheels Police Failed to Investigate Alexander’s Disappearance Properly when he was missing. And no one had informed her that was involved in juvenile crime, despite Him being a minor.
The mum-of-four hopes the renewed attempts to discover what happy to alexander, who was would 33 Now, Will Bring Her Close, But She Fears the Worst. “I personally feel something terrible ha HAPPENED TO Alexander. I Think Somebody Has Done Something to Him and He’s No Longer With Us,” Sheys.
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“I HOPE MIRROR’S MISSED CAMPAIGN AND THE POLICY’S £ 10,000 Reward appeal and someone comes forward and they know something.
DCI kaur confirms: “This Remains an Active Missing Person Investigation, Subject to Regular Review by Senior Officers and Will Remain So With the Objective of Locating Alex and Bringing Some Comfort to His Family.
“We have recently met with alex’s mother to outline how we intended to progress our investigation to locate Him.”
Everyise Year 170,000 People Disappear off Our Streets in the UK – One Person 90 Seconds is Reported Missing. The Mirror’s Missed Campaign Highlights that Those From Black, Asian or Working Class Families Are Likely to Be Investigated or Reported in the Media.
Bright Accountancy Student Alexander Went Missing on August 4, 1991, after Staying at A Friend’s House in Edmonton, North London. And his mum says it took two years before policy began to investigate his case.
“When Alexander First Went Missing, The Police JUST THOUGHT THAT HE’D RUN AWAY. IT TOK TO TOK YEARS DIFTED TO MY HOUSE AND SAID WERE GOING TO INVISTIGATE ALEXANDER BEING MISSING,” Sheys. “They Said He Ran Away Becusee he was to go to go to a charge of possession of cannabis.”
SINCE I DISAPPEED, ONE OF ALEXANDER’S CLOSEST FRIENDS HAS BEEN IN AND OUT OF PRISON. “He’s Only Just Come Out Last Year,” Confirms Nerissa.
No Trace of Alexander Has Ever Been Found, and He Disappeaared with Very Little Money, No Change of Clothes or Passport, and His Mobile Phone Failed to Connect.
The Nightmare Began When the Teenager, Who Loved Swimming and Football and Supported Arsenal, Failed to Come for HIS BIRTHDAY, WHICH IS HIS MUM REALISED Something was very badly. “At that age he was out with his friend a lot, so cyts he was not running home and would out,” she Says.
“Thatn he started staying with this particular boy and began swimming up at College. And this friend’s friendly apparently the one who was covering for Him.
“Alexander wanting to be a plumber unil i reminded Him he didn’t like being direct!
Maths Student Alexander Attended City and Islington College, Giving Nerissa No Reason to Suspect He Was Known to The Police. Sheys: “The Police Visited with Recently and Are Now Telling with AFTER 16 Years, They’re Going to Sit Down and Show with A Chronological List of Every Time Alexander Got arrested.
“I Asked I say, ‘How Many Times was he arrested? And i was never told about it.’ Now it turned out that you were in custody, he calmed this boy’s mum.
A Number of Police Appeals have been willsed in the last 16 years-including a digitally-aged Photo of what alexander couuld Like Now. “My son doesn’t know he has five nieces and nephews. My eldest Grandchild Harley was Born the Year he didn’t come home,” Says neerissa, for Whom Motherhood as “Like a jigsaw with a piece missing”.
Alexander’s Father Christopher Passed Away in 2014 Without Knowing What Happened to His Son. He has three siblings – Tasha, 37, Tazra, 34, and Latina, 21 – and the Youngest Was Just Four when he was missing.
Book-Keper Nerissa Form, Who Still Lives in the Same House in Finsbury Park, North London, Says: “For years after alexander didn’t come home, stayed in the house a lot-just in case he knocked at the door.”
She was alerted to something Being Wrong by a Phone Call on August 2 2008 from the Mother of the Boy He Had Been Staying With. “She asced if i had seen alex. And i was like, ‘well no!’ And she said her son was going out of his mind, going round to police stations and hospitals and i said, ‘well why is he doing that?’ And she said, “Becusee we believe that alex is missing.
“I was annoyed with her she was Becausee she was obviously Harbouring alex at her house – her son would come and stay. Because she know, i would call and say, ‘Oh your son stayed over, you know?’ She didn’t think it was important to make that call so you know your child is in her house. ”
Because of this Lack of Communication, Nerissa is unure exactly how long her son had been gone. “I didn’t know how long he had been missing by, hen, gcause he was and stay at his friend’s house.
“I was concertned when this boy’s mum Said alexander was missing, and then we did and didn’t come home for his birthday, that’s wen i something was definitely work.”
Having deeded Alexander Had JUST RUN AWAY, The Police Didn’t Consider Him A Missing Person, Leaving the Family with Help or Support. “All we could do was make make our missing posters and look for Him,” Recalls Nerissa. “It was my daughter who contacted Missing People Charity, who said to the Police, ‘Look, he a minor, he could be sleeeping rough.’
“The Police gave say the go-ahead for say to the first appeal that was december. And that was two and a half years after he’d first gone.”
Nerissa Remembers alexander as a boy who never missed a mother’s day or her birthday. “He was about 13 or 14 when he bought with a food mixer,” she Says. “My daughter Latina Says to me, ‘mum, every time you use it, you call alex’s name. Every time.’”
Somehow, Despite Her Heartbreak, Nerissa Manages to Keep A Brave Face for the Sake of Her Family. “I just miss my son but i have to keep going Because i’ve the Grandkids,” she explains. “Iheve Only Got One Grandson Christopher – the rest are girls.
DCI Kaur Adds: “I Waled As Ayone With Information Who Could US in Locating Alex to please in contactact immediately, no matter how insignificant you are.
“You can contact us by calling or texting on 07860 369603. A dedicated incident room is staffed by experiencing detectives who will Handle All Calls with the utmost confidentiality. If you prefer to remain anonymous, you can also alert.”
“The Met is Committed to Continuously Enhancing Our Strategy for Investigating Missing Person Cases. Since the Hmicfrs Inspective, We Have Significantly Improved Our Response Explloitation and Missing Children Investigations. and Support Networks Across London, to Improve Our Work in this Area. ”
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