This is the Guardian.

Today, the man who fell to earth and the little brother he left behind. In 2001, Esther Adley was a young journalist who had only recently started working at The Guardian,

when her editor brought over a cutting from a local newspaper.

It was just a paragraph or two about the body of a man that had been found by a supermarket

worker in the car park of Home Base, which is a sort of

DIY super store in Richmond, a quite leafy, quite nice borough in West London.

And the police knew instantly what had happened. This was an airplane

stowaway who had climbed into the wheel bay of a plane and at the point where the

aircraft lower their wheels at Richmond as As they approached he threw from the east,

he'd fallen out and this is where he'd landed.

Quite quickly the police managed to establish what flight he had come on and it was a British Airways flight from Bahrain that had taken off the night before.

But initially there was nothing about the man that would identify him.

He had a scrap of paper in his pocket with a few numbers on it.

His body was in quite a bad condition, so I don't think there was, you know know there was certainly no possibility of taking a

photograph and trying to sort of identify him in that way and so it was certainly going to be a

bit of a task for them to try and identify the man and find out who he was as well. And my editor at the time said let's see if we can find the

family.

The police eventually identified the man as 21 year old Mohammed Ayaz.

Esther, together with a guardian colleague in Lahore, managed to track down his family in a remote

village in Northern Pakistan.

She wrote up the story of Mohammed's tragic attempt to reach the UK in search of a better life.

Occasionally she would think about him in the 23 years that passed and then out of the blue an email

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