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Noah Donohoe inquest LIVE updates as first police witness gives evidence

Earlier, the inquest heard about the moment Noah’s mobile phone was discovered while he was missing.

Noah Donohoe returned home after 4am on June 21 without his flip flops and headphones

The first police officer to visit Noah Donohoe’s house following his disappearance says he’s “content” with the notes he took during his initial meeting with the schoolboy’s mother.

The officer faced questioning at an inquest into the teenager’s death on why he had made only six lines of notes in his pocket notebook about the meeting with Fiona Donohoe, hours after Noah went missing.

The 14-year-old was found dead in a storm drain in north Belfast in June 2020, six days after leaving home on his bike to meet two friends in the Cavehill area.

A post-mortem examination found his death was due to drowning. The inquest into his death, which is being heard with a jury, is now in its third week.

The officer, who was a constable at the time, said he was made aware of a missing person investigation on the evening of June 21 2020.

He told Belfast Coroner’s Court that he spoke to Fiona Donohoe on the phone and later attended her home address in south Belfast.

Reading from his statement about Noah’s disappearance, the officer said: “It was also noted that this type of behaviour was completely out of character for the missing person and he would usually be home long before 10pm.

“He had no access to cash or access to a vehicle, apart from his bicycle.”

He said Ms Donohoe told him that her son had been very emotional earlier in the day. The officer said Noah was not someone who had come to the attention of police before.

The officer’s log entry said he had searched Noah’s bedroom. It said the room was “extremely tidy” and there was “nothing to suggest” the missing person did not intend to come home.

He told the jury he was used to dealing with missing persons investigations.

The officer said he was “content with the notebook”, adding that he had not highlighted every action in his notebook but said all relevant information had been recorded separately in the occurrence enquiry log (OEL).

The officer said: “I’m quite content with my actions in relation to that night, in relation to taking details off the reporting person, it may not have been ideal for me to be sitting with my head in my notebook, writing down notes continuously.”