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Police 'missed' schoolboy on CCTV filmed minutes before disappearance

A police officer missed Noah Donohoe on CCTV footage he examined the day after the schoolboy's disappearance in June 2020, an inquest has heard. CCTV cameras were operating on the York Road in north Belfast on the day of his disappearance. Noah cycled along York Road minutes before he went missing at nearby Northwood Road. On Wednesday, Constable Day gave evidence at the inquest into the boy's death and acknowledged he did not see Noah on CCTV footage from the Grove Wellbeing Centre or on separate footage recorded at a funeral directors on the opposite side of the same road. The inquest has footage from the Grove Wellbeing Centre, which shows Noah cycling past the centre minutes before his disappearance. It is understood the footage from the funeral directors is no longer available. However, a view from the same camera position, taken in 2025, shows that the camera captures a clear view of the main road as well as the front of the adjacent Grove Wellbeing Centre. It also captures the area around the entrance to Skegoneill Avenue, the point at which Noah left the York Road. A barrister for Fiona Donohoe, Noah's mother, has made the case that this suggests the camera at the funeral d

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Police 'missed' schoolboy on CCTV filmed minutes before disappearance

A police officer missed Noah Donohoe on CCTV footage he examined the day after the schoolboy's disappearance in June 2020, an inquest has heard. CCTV cameras were operating on the York Road in north Belfast on the day of his disappearance.…

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A police officer missed Noah Donohoe on CCTV footage he examined the day after the schoolboy's disappearance in June 2020, an inquest has heard. CCTV cameras were operating on the York Road in north Belfast on the day…

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