On Sun 28 April, a 14-year-old girl from Surrey was reported missing by her mum. We started a missing person enquiry, and she was found the following morning (29 April) at Hounslow train station.
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This footage was taken by our @MPSHeathrow colleagues as they arrested 34-year-old Diiriye Ali-Jamac on a plane to Ethiopia (with a one way ticket), four days after he'd had sex with a 14 year old girl.
Here's how we caught him...#Threadpic.twitter.com/secpwEFwvi
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Our specialist officers worked with the girl and her family, gaining her trust, and she disclosed that she had arranged to meet a man on WhatsApp. The man had taken her to an unknown hotel and had sex with her.
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We started an intensive investigation to find the man, who she only knew as "Diddie", as quickly as possible.
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The first clue came from her mobile phone. She'd taken a "selfie" early on the Monday morning, and an officer was able to identify the hotel based on the background of the selfie.
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The suspect had paid cash, and given a fake name, so we trawled through the CCTV footage from around the hotel until we found footage of the car he'd used.
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On Tues 30 April we added the car to our "wanted" list and it was found later that day by the
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We continued to search the CCTV around the hotel. Trawling through CCTV (especially when there are lots of cameras) can be a time consuming job - and some officers worked a 28 hour shift on this case.
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We also continued to search for variations of his nickname, and on 2 May we got information that linked 34 year old Diiriye Ali-Jamac with the nickname “Diddie”.
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We visited his previous known addresses, and added a "wanted" marker to the police national computer. Within 3 hours the marker had a hit...
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"Diddie" had bought a one way ticket and boarded a plane to Ethiopia. We quickly informed
@MPSHeathrow who kindly went and got him off the plane (less than 30 minutes before the plane was due to take off).
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When we looked at his phone, he'd been sent a message by the driver of the car, tipping him off that the car had been stopped, and seized, in relation to an allegation of sexual assault.
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On Monday 19 August Ali-Jamac was jailed for six years after earlier pleading guilty to three counts of sexual activity with a child. He was also given an indefinite Sexual Harm Prevention Order.
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