Owami Davies: police issued CCTV images showing wrong woman

Met hurriedly apologised and withdrew images that it initially said showed missing woman in a shop

The Metropolitan police issued pictures of the wrong black woman in an early appeal for information about the missing student nurse Owami Davies, it has emerged.

As the force's handling of the case faces increased scrutiny, it has come to light that Scotland Yard issued CCTV images on 3 August that it said showed Davies in a shop in Croydon, but in fact showed another woman.