article_snippet.sent: Interpol, the international police organisation, had initially refused to open a missing person’s enquiry.
article_snippet.sent: Instead Interpol, the international police organisation believed Mr King's had travelled to Australia to see Ms Ray.
article_snippet.sent: Ms Ray, who lives in Perth, Australia, said her father’s passport details had been mixed up with another David King, who had indeed travelled to Australia from France.
article_snippet.sent: her said this was known by November last year, but ‘the French authorities still hadn’t been formally notified of this via Interpol until approximately three months later’.
article_snippet.sent: Ms Ray said a quicker enquiry would have avoided
article_snippet.sent: Detectives should have worked out what was going on far quicker.
article_snippet.sent: The slow speed of a quicker enquiry was unacceptable.'