Police Shortcomings in Noah Donohoe Search

0:00On April 16, a bell-fast inquest into the death of 14-year-old Noah Donahoe is uncovering major police shortcomings during the search for him, back in June 2020. Noah, a student at Somalakai's college, left home on his bike to meet friends near Cave Hill, and his naked body turned up six days later in a north. Bell-fast storm drain. Post-mortem confirmed drowning as the cause, and now in week 11, testimony shows cops lacked enough officers to keep crowds away from key search, zones. Retired Inspector Mineri, who led the hazardous environment search team, explained they couldn't enter the culvert until the next morning, due to just two available personnel. He spent about 40 minutes inside, calling it a super-hostile spot in pitch darkness. The team arrived on June 23, but hit delays, and Mineri noted it might have taken Noah less than an hour to move through, if determined. Some media conspiracy theories drew big crowds to the area, with some folks getting antagonistic

1:00to our police. Logs show hundreds gathered in linear park, forcing officers to suspend the search around lunchtime, hoping the group would thin out. Tensions bullied over with shouting matches between locals and residents, and it took public order units to finally clear the park by 120 pm. Lawyers grilled Mineri on why urgency wasn't higher from the start, and he admitted insufficient police numbers met no sterile search area for a high-risk missing kid. They also misreviewed nearby CCTV that could have shown Noah near the drain entrance, and title-flood info came late, potentially shifting it from search to rescue mode with divers sooner. This testimony paints a picture of resource gaps and info lapses that slow things down critically, as the inquest digs deeper into what went wrong.