So, there was a bitter split up with the first husband and the first husband was 'questioned' at this time and his house searched
'Find my little boy': Missing lad of three's distraught mum pleads for his return
17 Jan 2014 11:31
A major search operation is underway after Rosdepp Kular, 33, woke to discover her three-year-old son had disappeared from their home
Mum Rosdeep, right, found Mikaeel's bed emptyMum Rosdeep, right, found Mikaeel's bed empty
A distraught mother whose toddler vanished from his bed in the dead of night pleaded yesterday: Find my little boy.
Beautician Rosdeep Kular, 33, went to three-year-old Mikaeel’s bedroom at 7.15am – only to find him gone.
Hundreds of police and volunteers were last night scouring the Forth shoreline and houses near Rosdeep’s home in Drylaw, Edinburgh, as temperatures plunged to 4C.
A man who lived at the same address as Rosdeep’s first husband was detained by police and his house searched by forensic officers. Police denied any link to Mikaeel’s disappearance.
As locals were asked to check gardens, sheds and wheelie bins, Superintendent Liz McAinsh said: “It’s getting dark, it’s getting colder, please help us.
“Mikaeel’s mother is distraught.
“She just wants our help and the public’s help in finding her little boy.”
Mikaeel lives with his twin sister Ashika, and Rosdeep’s three children from a previous marriage – Tarun, nine, David, seven and five-year-old Renuka.
He normally shares the same bedroom as Ashika but was sleeping alone on the night he vanished. His jacket and shoes are also missing.
Frank Arthur, 72, who lives in the flat above, said: “I’ve seen the little lad and his sister playing around in the stairwell. They don’t seem to go out a lot.
“I don’t think the boy could have got out by himself. It’s quite a heavy door.
“You push a button and then it whistles so you open the door. It’s quite a lot for a three-year-old, to be pulling the door open.”
Mikaeel is 3ft, of Asian appearance with a faded scar on the bridge of his nose and a sore on the left-hand side of his mouth.
When he disappeared he was possibly wearing a beige hooded jacket, blue jogging bottoms, brown Clarks shoes and nightwear.
He may also have been wearing a grey pyjama top with an embroidered turquoise dinosaur on the chest and black gloves with multi-coloured fingers.
Rosdeep married Nigerian Omotoso Adekunle Adekoya, 35, in Glenrothes in 2004 and had Tarun, David
and Renuka.
But after a bitter split, she moved out with the children. She found happiness with a new man and the couple were over the moon when she gave birth to Mikaeel and Ashika on May 7 2010.
Taxi driver Adekoya, 35, lives at Waterfront Gait in Edinburgh – a five-minute walk from the family’s flat.
Just before midday yesterday, 20 officers swooped on the address and bundled a man of African appearance into a van.
Neighbour Donald Cockburn, 53, said: “I came home at 11.45am and a police car pulled in front of me with its lights on. There was a van following and within minutes the area was swarming with police and you couldn’t get in to the road.
“They spoke to a young black man outside, and then they led him away. He wasn’t in handcuffs and he wasn’t being aggressive but they took him away holding his wrists.
“Police officers in hi-vis jackets went straight in to the property.
“It was very unusual. There must have been 20-25 uniformed and plain-clothes police. They were very quick to act.
“I just hope they find the young lad soon.”
Police insisted the operation was not connected with the hunt for Mikaeel.
Supt McAinsh said: “There have been no arrests. There have been no formal detentions, but several people are assisting us with our inquiries.”
But last night, at least 12 forensic officers were searching the address.
A former neighbour of Mikaeel said there had once been a “problem” with Adekoya visiting the children.
Patricia Kilpatrick, 72, said: “She wasn’t with her husband any more.
“I remember there being a problem one day with her husband who had come to take the kids on a Sunday but he couldn’t get them from inside the house.
“He used to come and take them away for the day, I think to his house, but not all of them, just his kids.
“He had come on the Sunday to pick them up but I think he realised that they were alone in the house and soon after that the police arrived to sort out everything.
“He was a big man and very frank in his demeanour whenever I saw him. I think he was a taxi driver as he would always arrive with a taxi and take them away in it.”
Rosdeep’s sister Pandeep, 37, was unavailable for comment last night.
Asked whether there were any custody issues with the family, Supt McAinsh said: “Obviously we are following all lines of inquiry, there are no concerns that we have at the moment.
“We are following all lines of inquiry with all partner agencies and with the family and the family are being very helpful at the moment.”
Efforts were made to speak to Mikaeel’s father, who is understood to be of Pakistani origin.
Supt Liz Ainsh said: “We’ve spoken to all key members of the family. They are assisting us with our inquiries.
“I would stress at the moment we have no indication at all of any criminality. It remains a missing person inquiry.”
Mikaeel’s grandmother, retired doctor Harjinder Kular, joined the rest of the family in Edinburgh as the search continued.
The family’s black Jaguar was parked outside and they left the property in a hurry at about lunchtime.
Harjinder’s neighbour April Mullen met Mikaeel and his siblings many times when they came to her garden to see her fish pond. She said he was “quiet and sweet- natured, just like his brothers and sisters”.
April added: “I think I’m like everyone in the country who is praying for a happy outcome. I hope he is returned to his family as soon as possible.”
Last night, police confirmed they had been in contact with airports across the UK. They said that this was “routine in any missing persons inquiry”.
Police could not confirm whether Mikaeel has a passport or is listed on his parents’ documents, or whether he has ever been out of the country.
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