Lucas Opanuga, 21, was last heard from on Tuesday afternoon, reports James Cracknell
A father has made an emotional appeal for help tracing his 21-year-old son, who has been missing for four days and had recently been suffering with mental health problems.
Adetola Opanuga said he last spoke to his son Lucas on Tuesday afternoon, but no-one has heard from him since.
Lucas had been going to visit the large Currys PC World superstore in Southbury Road, Enfield, and spoke to his father on the phone at 4.21pm while on board the 121 bus outside Cineworld, next to the A10. He has not been seen since.
Adetola told the Dispatch: “My biggest fear is that he has done something to himself. I am so worried for him.”
Lucas, who is just over six feet tall, had been suffering from mental ill health for several months. He was visiting Currys PC World to buy “a treat” that his father hoped would cheer him up.
Although Adetola spoke to Lucas at 4.21pm, his last activity on WhatsApp was at 5.45pm.
Lucas has lived in Southgate all his life and attended Southgate High School. He is currently studying mechanical engineering at Portsmouth University.
If anyone has any information about Lucas’s whereabouts, they are urged to contact the missing persons unit of the Metropolitan Police on 0208 345 3332 and provide the reference number 22MI5006280.
Update (02/03):
On Wednesday, 2nd March officers searching an area of woodland in Waltham Abbey found the body of a man. Formal identification awaits but Lucas’s family have been updated with this development. They are being supported by specially trained officers. Enquiries into the circumstances remain ongoing.
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