:00:00. > :00:00.Police were able to piece together the extraordinary story of his
:00:00. > :00:00.tragic death, thousands of miles from home. Some viewers may find
:00:07. > :00:11.parts of this story upsetting. Early on the morning of September
:00:12. > :00:17.nine, 2012, the body of a young man was discovered on this street in
:00:18. > :00:24.south`west London. I was in bed and a heard a bang. I wondered what it
:00:25. > :00:29.was. I opened the door and I saw the man. No one knew how he got there.
:00:30. > :00:38.Along came forensics in their white coats and cameras. As it went on in
:00:39. > :00:43.the morning, more police arrived. But detectives had no idea how he
:00:44. > :00:52.died. Initially it was difficult to work out what happened to the sky.
:00:53. > :00:55.`` this guy. Nobody knew who he was always he had come from. We did not
:00:56. > :01:02.know whether he had parents or children. That really would be nice
:01:03. > :01:08.to resolve. This is the story of a true life mystery that spans two
:01:09. > :01:14.continents, seven countries and took more than 1.5 years to unfold. He
:01:15. > :01:19.was a really good person. He had a really soft matter about him. I miss
:01:20. > :01:55.him. It will be another sunny and hot a
:01:56. > :01:59.foremost, 24`27. Approximately 745 I heard a thump and I thought nothing
:02:00. > :02:04.of it and went back to sleep. The next thing I can remember is my
:02:05. > :02:07.brother worked me up and said there is a man in the street and he is
:02:08. > :02:11.dead and there is police outside. He was a black tie wearing a pair of
:02:12. > :02:47.sneakers, jeans and a T`shirt. By then the police had closed off
:02:48. > :02:55.the road, both ends. And cornered off an area, 30 metres away from my
:02:56. > :02:59.house. I could see the front door and I could hear all of this
:03:00. > :03:04.commotion. I thought, what on earth is going on outside. I could see
:03:05. > :03:11.police. I wondered what it was. I opened the door and I saw the police
:03:12. > :03:19.and I saw the man's body. It was a shock, obviously. We thought that he
:03:20. > :03:27.had been murdered them. His body was twisted and his head had split open.
:03:28. > :03:31.I have seen people murdered in the street before, stabbed and shot.
:03:32. > :03:37.This man looked like he had been hit extremely hard. I thought this was a
:03:38. > :03:42.traffic accident. But it was a quiet residential street, not a busy
:03:43. > :03:49.thoroughfare. He would have had to go over the bonnet and the roof onto
:03:50. > :03:52.the pavement. What started out as a crime scene that looked like the guy
:03:53. > :04:00.had been murdered, I noticed they kept on looking up at the sky. The
:04:01. > :04:05.planes were close enough that I can actually see the wheels being
:04:06. > :04:14.lowered. The way it looked, it looked like he had fallen. We were
:04:15. > :04:20.directly under the flight path. On Sunday there would be a flight to
:04:21. > :04:25.Heathrow every couple of minutes. It was a very clear day. One of the
:04:26. > :04:37.officers said that this has happened in the past, stowaways. It came over
:04:38. > :04:41.the police radio. A flight from Angola had flown over the location
:04:42. > :04:49.at about that time. The penny dropped, really. The guy has got
:04:50. > :04:54.serious injuries. It indicated that perhaps he has fallen from an
:04:55. > :04:59.aircraft. What became clear is that this man had stowed away in the
:05:00. > :05:03.undercarriage just before takeoff and as the plane flew over this
:05:04. > :05:07.street on approach to landing, that is the point at which the wheels are
:05:08. > :05:14.lowered and he fell. The question is why he took such an extraordinary
:05:15. > :05:17.risk. The only clues to his identity were a mobile phone and sim card
:05:18. > :05:26.tucked inside the pocket of his trousers. That is what the police
:05:27. > :05:29.focused on. He had no identity or documents on him. No passport,
:05:30. > :05:35.obviously, but nothing to identify him as a person. Not even his
:05:36. > :05:45.country of origin. The flight was from Angola. He had Angola and
:05:46. > :05:53.Botswana currency in his pocket. It was all a bit conflict. Certainly
:05:54. > :06:00.pointing to Africa. He had a distinctive tattooed on his left
:06:01. > :06:05.arm. It was very crude, quite big. It was a DIY tattooed. We tried
:06:06. > :06:12.through research and checking on Google to see if that would help us.
:06:13. > :06:16.To see if that were the initials of a football club or anything, but it
:06:17. > :06:22.did not help. I have been a coroner for nearly 14 years and have dealt
:06:23. > :06:26.with five or six similar cases of stowaways falling from an aircraft.
:06:27. > :06:38.We are under a flight path at Heathrow. Sadly I expect we may see
:06:39. > :06:44.more of those in the future. It has effectively long`term really. I have
:06:45. > :06:47.had bad dreams about it ever since. When a plane comes over, I do get
:06:48. > :06:54.nervous. When I can see the undercarriage coming down, I think,
:06:55. > :06:58.is it going to happen again? It would be better if you were able to
:06:59. > :07:05.contact the family and tell them the obviously sad news, but better than
:07:06. > :07:13.them being anxious about his whereabouts. Sadly there does come a
:07:14. > :07:19.time where we are unable to identify people and in those cases we ask the
:07:20. > :07:26.local authority to arrange a funeral. We do not like having to do
:07:27. > :07:37.that. We do what we can do ask the right questions. It is a body found
:07:38. > :07:42.in a street, unidentified and we should let the relatives know what
:07:43. > :07:45.has happened. That is like reality. By this point the police
:07:46. > :07:49.investigation was stalled. The man's phone is locked and police
:07:50. > :07:54.attempts to get the data came to nothing. Police turned their
:07:55. > :08:01.attention to the sim card they had found on him. The rectory was the
:08:02. > :08:05.sim card in his pocket. It included information about a text message
:08:06. > :08:12.that he had sent to another number and some stored data. The
:08:13. > :08:20.interesting thing was the text message sent to a mobile phone is
:08:21. > :08:25.registered in Switzerland. I tried calling the number and I did not get
:08:26. > :08:32.an answer back. One evening that number came up as an incoming call.
:08:33. > :08:38.The policemen on the phone told me that there was a stowaways and this
:08:39. > :08:45.unknown person had fallen from the plane in Richmond. I did not know
:08:46. > :08:53.what he was talking about at first. She was like, why it a talking to
:08:54. > :08:57.me, why would I know? Suddenly, the penny dropped and there was a total
:08:58. > :09:07.change in her demeanour. I told him, I knew who it is. I cried on the
:09:08. > :09:20.phone to the policemen. I was in shock, complete shock. He has got it
:09:21. > :09:33.had to on his arm, a Z and AG. He was given a name in our alphabet. It
:09:34. > :09:39.is written with AG. She was living in South Africa with her then
:09:40. > :09:47.husband. He was our gardener and was taking care. The man whose body was
:09:48. > :09:53.found after falling to the ground from the undercarriage of a plan has
:09:54. > :10:04.been identified. He was a 30 rolled Mozambican National called Jose
:10:05. > :10:11.Matada. After he finished working for me, we travelled together. I
:10:12. > :10:18.went with him to Mozambique. We grew very close to one another. He
:10:19. > :10:25.converted to Islam, so he was a Muslim. I am a convert to Islam. We
:10:26. > :10:33.were like family. I was trying to help him find work for him. I knew
:10:34. > :10:45.that his family did not have a lot of means. Also I cared for him. I
:10:46. > :10:53.have known him for several years. He was a really nice man. He was a
:10:54. > :11:04.really good person. He had a soft manner about him. I miss him. He
:11:05. > :11:11.told me about his childhood and how difficult it has been. His father
:11:12. > :11:16.died of illness. Troubled week he was about five or six at this point.
:11:17. > :11:24.`` probably. There were floods in Mozambique in his area. There were
:11:25. > :11:28.scavenging for food. I asked him if he would like his life to be written
:11:29. > :11:33.down in a book one day. He said he would love that, because people
:11:34. > :11:40.would know how hard it had been for him. She remembered in September he
:11:41. > :11:49.sent messages indicating that he needed help. I wish he had called me
:11:50. > :11:57.before taking the plane, so I would have told him, get out of that
:11:58. > :12:01.plane, don't go inside it. We don't know how Josie Mercado got into the
:12:02. > :12:05.airport in Rwanda, but we do know that this is how he travelled to
:12:06. > :12:09.London, and he would have had to climb up as quickly as possible
:12:10. > :12:15.along this piece of metal and into the real arch. `` wheel arch. He
:12:16. > :12:18.would have done it at night, and it would have been dark. I wonder if at
:12:19. > :12:23.this moment he had second thoughts, and thought he had made a terrible
:12:24. > :12:26.mistake. The first major risk to stowaways comes after takeoff,
:12:27. > :12:32.because at that point, the wheels retract up and fill most of this
:12:33. > :12:35.space. As the plane climbs, the temperature will fall to `60
:12:36. > :12:41.degrees, the oxygen would have been, and at some point over the
:12:42. > :12:53.next eight hours, he would have lost conscience. People do it by entering
:12:54. > :12:57.a state of hibernation. They become chilled in the aircraft very
:12:58. > :13:00.rapidly, and enter a state of hibernation, where the oxygen
:13:01. > :13:06.requirements are much lower than normal. There is a period at which
:13:07. > :13:10.they may be able to survive. Was telling him it was very cold in my
:13:11. > :13:18.country, but I don't he understood, or he grasped just how cold it is,
:13:19. > :13:26.and I don't think he knew that an altitude like that is extremely cold
:13:27. > :13:30.. My opinion is that he would have been dead or close to dead when he
:13:31. > :13:33.struck the ground. There were some breathing around the injuries, which
:13:34. > :13:39.indicate that he may have had a lower level of heart activity, some
:13:40. > :13:44.blood, when he hit the ground. It is inevitable he would have died, even
:13:45. > :13:47.if he hadn't fallen out. As the plane was coming into land of
:13:48. > :13:50.London, these doors here would have opened, the Wills would have come
:13:51. > :14:02.back down. Prosaic still unconscious would have been unable to hold on.
:14:03. > :14:06.`` Jose. At the point the plane was passing over he would have fallen
:14:07. > :14:09.out. He landed right on the pavement, he didn't hit a car or
:14:10. > :14:18.anything. Just like X marks the spot. It is upsetting for anyone who
:14:19. > :14:22.comes into contact. You think, he had such high hopes, and he was
:14:23. > :14:28.obviously more mystic and he should have been. I just thought, what have
:14:29. > :14:35.you done? Why did you get onto that plane, why would you more patient?
:14:36. > :14:41.But, we are Muslims, so we believe that when it is your time to die it
:14:42. > :14:44.is a time to die. The police in London have been in touch with the
:14:45. > :14:51.authorities in Mozambique, but have been told there is no trace of Jose
:14:52. > :14:55.Matada. That means his family have not yet been found, so he has been
:14:56. > :14:59.buried in this unmarked grave just a few miles from where he fell to
:15:00. > :15:04.work. As far as we know, his family have no idea about what has happened
:15:05. > :15:08.to him. Perhaps they are still waiting to that call to say that he
:15:09. > :15:13.is safe, and that he has found that better life that he was looking for.
:15:14. > :15:18.I do think about it a lot, I just think it is awful, that it is
:15:19. > :15:23.horrible to think that he has a family and they don't know what has
:15:24. > :15:28.happened to him. It would just be fascinating to find out why he did
:15:29. > :15:34.it, what was going through his mind. Somewhere, a mother, father,
:15:35. > :15:39.brother and sister, or even children, knows he is missing. There
:15:40. > :15:40.will be a mother somewhere who desperately wants to know what has
:15:41. > :16:13.happened to her son. It is now 15 months since Jose
:16:14. > :16:15.Matada was found dead in Portman Avenue, and we have come to
:16:16. > :16:19.Mozambique because we have heard of a new development. His family have
:16:20. > :16:23.come forward and identify themselves to the authorities, so we are
:16:24. > :19:49.heading to the outskirts of Maputo, the capital, to meet them.
:19:50. > :19:53.Jose Matada wasn't alone in leaving Mozambique in search of a job and
:19:54. > :19:55.better opportunities, because most of his friends also headed to South
:19:56. > :19:57.Africa, and many families here and many families here in this
:19:58. > :20:00.neighbourhood reliant on relatives sending back money from abroad. What
:20:01. > :20:03.was different about Jose Matada was the extraordinary risk he took in
:20:04. > :20:05.search of a different life. The question is, what drove him to do
:20:06. > :21:23.that? This is what I suppose we will never
:21:24. > :21:26.know. Jessica told us that she loved Jose Matada, but like he was a
:21:27. > :21:30.member of her family, and nothing more. His brother believes he was in
:21:31. > :21:33.love with her, and that was what was driving him, that was what was in
:21:34. > :21:38.his mind when he boarded the plane. I suppose we can save a certain that
:21:39. > :21:40.as far as Jose Matada was concerned, there was no future for him here, in
:21:41. > :23:24.Mozambique. If you have outdoor plants through
:23:25. > :23:28.the weekend, things are looking pretty cool, showery, and all in all
:23:29. > :23:32.quite unsettled. Blustery showers affecting many parts of the UK.
:23:33. > :23:38.There will be a cool wind, especially in the south. There will
:23:39. > :23:39.also be some sunshine in between those showers. We start off on a