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4th May 2021
05:20pm BST

"The two men then followed him into the tennis court and said to the teenage boys 'oh he's with us' at which point he [Ms Blackman's son] said 'I don't know them'."
When he got home, he was unsurprisingly "really shaken up, really scared" and Blackman and her husband immediately called the police when he told them what had happened. However Blackman also told the paper that she felt as though the police were trying to "fob it off" when they took a statement from her son, and that he interaction with the police had left her "very dissatisfied." She said: "They were asking questions like have you got any issues with other boys and do you have beef with other kids."I could see where they were going with this and I was like no it wasn't that. My son is a very smart little boy - he sensed danger. But they were trying to fob it off."
Blackman said that they were then told no investigation could take place as a crime had not been committed.
"They said they were sorry and that they were now investigating what happened."
The Met Police had initially said: "Police were called at 16:40hrs on Friday, 30 April to reports of two males acting suspiciously in Whitmore Road, Beckenham. Officers arranged to take a statement from the complainant. No suspects were identified."The investigation has been closed; an intelligence report was recorded and should any further evidential opportunities arise this decision will be reviewed."
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