An inquest into the death of Belfast schoolboy Noah Donohoe has heard from the police officer who recovered his bicycle close to where he was last seen.
The PSNI officer denied that items of Noah's clothing were lost by police after they had been recovered following the teenager's disappearance.
The PSNI constable was giving evidence at the start of the fourth week of proceedings.
The 14-year-old disappeared in June 2020.
His body was found six days after he went missing, hundreds of metres into a storm drain, the entrance to which was close to where he was last seen.
A post-mortem established the cause of death as drowning.
Under cross-examination by a barrister for Noah's mother, Fiona, the officer denied that a less rigorous investigative approach had been taken because it was a missing person's case.
The inquest has already heard how Noah was spotted by several people riding his bicycle naked at Northwood Road in north Belfast on the evening of 21 June.
Earlier, he had told his mother, Fiona, he was going to meet two friends at Cave Hill.
The meet-up had been cancelled, but the teenager had not got the message.
The inquest heard how he had cycled across the city that evening, at one point discarding possessions, including a laptop and eventually all his clothes.
The officer said if the remainder of Noah's clothes had been in the street, he would have found them.
He rejected a suggestion that they had been recovered but had been lost in the police exhibits system.
The officer said he had done everything that would have been expected, and there was nothing to suggest any crime had been committed.
He said he had not sealed the evidence bags the clothes had been placed in because he thought a dog unit might need access to them to assist with the search.
The PSNI constable told the inquest he was tasked the night after Noah went missing to check out a bicycle which had been found at Northwood Road, a cul-de-sac.
He spoke to several people in the street and fed back information that a teenager had been seen cycling naked in the area the previous evening.
He found the bicycle, which had been propped up against a wall, as well as a hoodie, shoes and a helmet at different points along the street.
The bike was seized, and the clothes were bagged.
Pictures of the bike and the helmet were emailed to a PSNI colleague in an attempt to get a confirmation that they belonged to Noah.
The constable said he and a fellow officer carried out a check for CCTV on houses along the street.
One homeowner told him she did not know how to review the CCTV camera on her house, and the officer said someone would return to speak to her husband when he came back.
He said he was not aware there was a second camera on the house, which was in the immediate area where Noah had last been seen.
Witness who saw boy cycling naked thought it was 'prank'
Earlier, a witness told the inquest into the death of Noah that he thought it was a "prank" when he saw the schoolboy cycling naked on the day he disappeared.
Connor McConnell told the hearing that he had been at his mother's partner's house on Sunday 21 June, 2020.
His statement, which was read to the jury, said: "While at the house, I was sat facing the living room window that looks out onto Northwood Road when I saw a male cycle past the window naked.
"I initially thought that this was a prank."
He said he had gone outside and saw items of clothing on the street.
A second statement read to the inquest said: "I told the police I had seen a nude male cycling up the street, and had observed his shoes neatly placed on the footpath and shorts and boxers looked like they had been stepped out of.
"These were also on the footpath, as were a T-shirt and hoodie, which I believed also belonged to the male."
Mr McConnell said he had later seen a dark car driving up the street and then saw two men talking at the top of the cul-de-sac.
He said he concluded this had nothing to do with the naked cyclist.
The audio of two phone calls the witness made to police on the Monday and Tuesday after Noah went missing were then played to the jury.
Mr McConnell told the inquest that he believed he had made three calls to the police, including two on the Sunday night.
