Family of amnesia man traced

The 59-year-old man from Derbyshire walked into Victoria Hospital in Deal, Kent, on August 18 suffering head pains and amnesia.

The man, who is not being named, said he had woken up on the beach at Deal the day before and asked for directions to the hospital, Kent Police said.

He did not have any obvious injuries, appeared clean and tidy and appeared not to have been sleeping rough, a force spokesman said.

Following a nationwide appeal for help in identifying him, police said yesterday his wife and stepchildren had now come forward.

The case drew comparisons with the discovery of another mystery man, dubbed the Piano Man, also in Kent in 2005.

He was found wandering aimlessly near the beach in Minster on the Isle of Sheppey, wearing a dripping-wet suit and tie, and all the labels from his clothes had been removed.

Staff at Medway Maritime Hospital in Gillingham, where he was first taken, gave him a pen and paper in the hope he would write his name or draw his country’s flag.

Instead, he drew highly detailed pictures of a grand piano, showing not only the keys but the intricate inner workings of the instrument, and played classical music “beautifully”.

After several months, it emerged he was Andreas Grassl from Germany.