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boy’s bones showed signs of matching a signature of Precambrian rock predominately found in Nigeria, almost certainly Adam’s country of birth. Scientists collated all the available data and concluded that the boy had almost certainly lived within a 100-mile ‘corridor’ located between Ibadan and Benin in south-west Nigeria (a country renowned for its practice of mutistyle medicine). Further tests also revealed that in addition to the cough linctus present in Adam’s stomach, the child had also been fed a mixture of bone, clay and gold – a typical muti potion. Pollen found in the boy’s stomach indicated that he had been alive when he was brought to Britain. Officers thought that his journey probably involved crossing Northern Europe via Germany, which would explain the purchase of the orange shorts, after which the boy had lived in Britain for a few weeks prior to his death.
    But for every small step forward with the case, there were several steps back. There was initial hope that a strikingly similar murder in Holland, which had occurred three weeks prior to Adam’s death, might throw some light on the case. The naked torso of a white girl, aged between five and seven years, had been discovered in a lake at Nulde, while her head was found many miles away by fisherman in the Hook of Holland. It was the manner in which both of the youngsters’ bodies had been mutilated that suggested there might be similarities between the two cases, but, as the investigation dragged on, no substantial link could be made.
    Hope also grew when, a few days after the discovery of Adam’s body, police found a number of half-burned candles wrapped in a white cloth with a Nigerian name written upon it. The bundle had washed up two miles upstream (in Chelsea) from where Adam’s body had been found. Detectives thought they had stumbled across further evidence in Adam’s murder; later however it transpired that both the sheet and candles had been used as part of an innocent ceremony held by a Nigerian family who were giving thanks that none of their relatives had been killed in the Twin Towers tragedy in New York on September 11, 2001.
    Almost a year passed before police were given any further clues to the killing. An employee within the Social Services department in Glasgow contacted Scotland Yard in London to report that a client of hers, a thirty-one-year-old West African woman by the name of Joyce Osagiede, had been overheard by witnesses saying that she wanted to perform a ritual sacrifice of her two children. This was a lead that seemed to good to be true, but when detectives traveled to Scotland in order to question Joyce Osagiede and discovered, amongst her children’s clothes, a pair of orange shorts made by the exact same company that had manufactured Adam’s, they believed a breakthrough had occurred. The reality however was that although Mrs Osagiede had lived for a short time in Germany and had purchased the same type of clothing as Adam’s, these facts alone were not enough to charge her. Later that month she and her children returned to Nigeria.
    But the police’s luck hadn’t run out completely for, by investigating Mrs. Osagiede, police tracked down her estranged husband, Sam Osagiede, who had recently appeared in court in Dublin due to extradition proceedings against him filed in Germany. In his absence, the German courts had sentenced Sam Osagiede to seven years imprisonment for offences relating to people trafficking. Osagiede was tested to see if his DNA matched that of Adam’s but, as with a test that had been run on Mrs. Osagiede, neither party was apparently related to the boy.

    Although many Sangomas, or witch doctors, offer cures for ailments using only herbal remedies, some believe that animal and human body parts have special powers to bring good fortune.
    Undiscouraged, police continued to question Osagiede; questioning that resulted in the