This archive report was first published on 12 November 2019.
On June 30, police in south London responded to reports of a body found in a garden at Offerton Road, Clapham, after it fell from the landing compartment of a Kenya Airways plane about to land at Heathrow Airport.
Following the discovery, the KQ aircraft was inspected, and a bag with food and clothes was found at the rear left landing gear.
British media house Sky News has identified the Kenyan stowaway as Paul Manyasi, who worked as a cleaner for Colnet, a company providing services to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA).
According to Sky News, they reached out to current and former Colnet staff and met several of them, including a woman named Irene, who revealed that her colleague and lover, Paul, went missing at the end of June.
“The last time I saw him, we were at work, he suddenly disappeared, nobody knows where he went,” Irene said.
Paul's parents, Isaac and Janet Manyasi, were interviewed by Sky News and revealed that they last heard from Paul at the beginning of July.
“Let him stay [in the UK]. Those are too many expenses. Soil is just soil,” Paul's father was quoted saying.
On October 1, London police had said a postmortem examination revealed the cause of death as multiple injuries.
Detective Sergeant Paul Graves stated, “We have pursued a number of lines of inquiry in what has been a very sad incident to investigate. This man has a family somewhere who needs to know what has happened to their loved one.”
