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Man who fell from KQ plane into a London garden identified

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Nyakundi Report

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This archive report was first published on 12 November 2019.

Published on November 12, 2019, a stowaway who fell off a Kenya Airways plane moments before it landed at London's Heathrow Airport in June has been identified.

According to Sky News, the man is 29-year-old Paul Manyasi, who worked as an airport cleaner.

Manyasi, who lived in the sprawling Mukuru Kwa Njenga slum near the airport, went missing at the end of June.

His girlfriend, Irene, revealed that he suddenly disappeared from work and his phone was off.

British police released an e-fit image of the stowaway in an attempt to identify him, along with pictures of a bag found in the compartment and its contents.

‘This has been a very sad incident to investigate. This man has a family somewhere, who need to know what happened to their loved one,’ a British police officer said while releasing the images.

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