Missing Bethnal Green pensioner Christopher Hogsdon has been found safe and well.

Mr Hogsdon, 82, was located on Thursday night, having been missing for more than 24 hours. He disappeared around 5.30pm on Wednesday from Whitechapel’s Royal London Hospital, where he had been admitted after being found slumped in an armchair by a friend. Mr Hogsdon, of Ramsey Street, suffers from dementia and a critical heart condition, and had no medication with him during the time he was missing.