Timothy Adeoye, 14, has been missing for a fortnight (Picture: Enfield MPS)

A worrying number of children have disappeared from a north London borough.

In the last few weeks, at least nine children between 13 and 17 have gone missing from the Enfield area.

Police say that while some of the kids could be missing together, they are conducting independent investigations for each child reported missing.

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The missing teenagers are predominantly black boys, and residents in the area are calling the sheer scale of the disappearances extremely ‘scary’.


Metro.co.uk spoke to Dami Adeoye, 27, whose cousin Timothy Adeoye, 14, has been missing from Enfield for two weeks.

He told us: ‘Our family have been encouraged by the overwhelming support shown by everyone who have circulated Timothy’s picture.



‘No information is insignificant so we’d like to appeal to anyone who has anything to come forward. Timothy is a 14-year-old child who’s been away from us for over two weeks.

‘Christmas for most of us is a time of joy and laughter. We want to be able to have that too, with Timothy home. Thank you all so much.’

Sadly, Timothy’s disappearance is not an isolated case.

Here are more of the youths that have gone missing from the area:

Demario Williams, DOB 27/12/2001 has been missing since November 29 (Picture: Enfield MPS)

Robert Donaldson, 17, has been missing since 14/11/17 (Picture: Enfield MPS)

Jamal Daley-Bonner

dob 06/01/2002

Missing since 12/11/2017

Call 101 or 02083453300

17MIS050092 pic.twitter.com/oRcJOdkx0I — Enfield MPS (@MPSEnfield) November 21, 2017

13-year-old Sarir Omar has been missing since November 23 (Picture: Enfield MPS)

Shyaan Wright 13 years old missing since 6/12/17 ref: 17MIS053058 if seen call 101 or 02083453332 DB pic.twitter.com/Nyo3figKgC — Enfield MPS (@MPSEnfield) December 9, 2017

JAYDON HALL

Aged 15

Reported missing since 13/11/2017

Call 101 or 02083453300

17MIS049969 pic.twitter.com/04x003y0Ub — Enfield MPS (@MPSEnfield) November 20, 2017

JACK WRIGHT

dob 18/01/2001

MISSING SINCE 03/12/2017

17MIS052798 pic.twitter.com/e8EHVsyIhB — Enfield MPS (@MPSEnfield) December 8, 2017

Mahdi Kadri, born in 1996, has been missing since November 14 (Picture: Enfield MPS)

A spokesperson for Met Police told Metro: ‘Enfield borough is not experiencing a disproportionate amount of missing teenagers.

‘In these individual cases, officers deemed it appropriate to use Twitter to assist investigations.

‘Police in Enfield issue brief appeals via Twitter in missing person cases where such publicity may be helpful.’

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A spokesperson added: ‘We understand how upsetting it is that these young children are missing and our Missing Persons Unit is conducting a separate and full investigation into each child whilst also addressing the possibility that they could be missing together.

‘We are using social media as an asset to try to get their faces known and to get information on their whereabouts to help with our investigations.

‘If anyone has info please call our MPU and help us to locate them and reunite them with family and friends.’

Any information or sightings should can be reported to Enfield Missing Persons on 0208 345 3300 or by calling 101.

The disappearances come after gang members Mahad Yusuf, 20, and Fesal Mahamud 19, were jailed for using a young woman, who had been reported missing, to traffic drugs.