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Abandoned Sikh boy baffles London police
WSN Network 

LONDON: The British police have found a nine-year-old abandoned Indian boy who claims to have been kept indoors watching television for several years at a house by a "white uncle". Police and social services are trying to piece together the past life of Gurinder Singh, who speaks only Punjabi and cannot name any relatives or friends, but he told police that he was deserted at the bus stop in a busy London suburb.  

He was found in a neighbourhood clinic apparently healthy but exhausted, leading Scotland Yard to believe that he may have travelled from any part of the country or even beyond. Gurinder appeared to be well dressed and there was nothing to suggest he had been ill-treated. He was found wearing a blue coat, yellow jumper with "3 game" on the front, blue jeans, white long-sleeved shirt with pink vertical stripes, white socks and red-and-beige trainers.  

"He told officers his parents had died before he came to this country and he says he has been here two to three years but had not engaged in school or other activities that you would expect for a nine-year-old. He seems to have stayed indoors watching television," Lunson told the Times newspaper. Gurinder said he lived in a three-bedroom house but apparently without any other children. He is unable to say which country he is from.

26 March 2008
 

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