Boy, 14, found dead after vanishing on walk to school

A 14-year-old lad has been recovered dormant aft helium went missing connected his mode to school.

Logan Slater, from Brighouse, West Yorkshire, disappeared aft leaving his location astatine astir 7.45am connected Monday.

The Brighouse High School student’s assemblage was recovered connected onshore disconnected Beechwood Park, Brighouse, yesterday.

West Yorkshire Police has since referred itself to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) implicit its handling of the case.

Richard Horsfield, headteacher astatine Brighouse High, said the teen was a valued subordinate of the schoolhouse assemblage who had a wide ellipse of friends.

Mr Horsfield said: ‘It was a peculiar pleasance to spot his emotion and enthusiasm for PE, particularly wrong rugby, turn successful the years helium spent with us.

‘We volition proceed to deliberation of his household and each of his friends astatine this precise bittersweet clip and volition bash each we tin arsenic a adjacent knit schoolhouse to enactment them.

‘We are grateful for the clip we spent with him and profoundly saddened that the clip came to specified an abrupt end.’

A West Yorkshire Police spokesperson said: ‘As a fig of calls had been made to the constabulary to study this missing person, a mandatory referral is being made to the Independent Office for Police Conduct, to reappraisal the actions taken by West Yorkshire Police.’

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