16:24 ET<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\nOfficers investigating the case of a boy’s torso found floating in the River Thames are planning to visit Nigeria.<\/p>\n
The headless and limbless body of the five or six-year-old child, was found near Tower Bridge in September 2001. The boy was named Adam by officers.<\/p>\n
Tests revealed he was poisoned 48 hours before his death and was paralysed but conscious when he was killed.<\/p>\n
A woman was arrested in connection with Adam’s death in July 2002, but she was deported to Nigeria months later.<\/p>\n
Forensic tests, involving samples taken from the bones, linked the boy to West Africa and subsequently to Nigeria.<\/p>\n
Officers believe Adam’s death was a ritualistic killing and he had been poisoned with an extract from the carabar bean.<\/p>\n
Investigators also met with the former South African President Nelson Mandela over the case.<\/p>\n
He subsequently made a public appeal for information about the boy in April 2002.<\/p>\n
A Metropolitan Police spokesman said: “We can confirm that the investigation team have been preparing to visit Lagos, Nigeria, in connection with the Adam inquiry.<\/p>\n
“They will be travelling in the near future.”<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n
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