A review of the search for Noah Donohoe raised concerns over “missing person fatigue” among police, an inquest jury has heard.
A barrister for Noah’s mother Fiona suggested the review found that police had believed the schoolboy would “turn up, he is just another missing child”.
A police witness, however, told Belfast Coroner’s Court that he believed officers had “gripped” the seriousness of the search at an early point.
The inquest into the death of the schoolboy, which is being heard with a jury, has entered its seventh week.
Noah, a pupil at St Malachy’s College, was 14 when his naked body was found in a storm drain tunnel in north Belfast in June 2020,…