Parliament Hill

A BIZARRE story concerning a local resident has been the talk of the town following events that took place in the early hours of Tuesday morning.

Local dog walkers were hailed from a park bench by a middle-aged man on Parliament Hill who claimed to have no recollection of who he was of how he got there. At first, people thought the man to be drunk or on drugs, but a small crowd soon gathered and it became clear that the man’s story was genuine.

“At first I thought he was having us on,” said Mr Franklin of St Anne’s Close “but after a while we started to take him seriously, and someone rang the police.”

Police arrived at the scene shortly after 6:30am and found the man to be in possession of no identification other than a small slip of paper with a Highgate address scrawled across it. The man was asked by the police to accompany them to the location in question, believing it to be his home address. At this point a further mysterious twist came to light: the man was unable to walk.

“When I asked the gentleman to follow me back down the hill, he complained that he had no sensation in his legs,” said PC Haskell. “We rang for a local doctor who arrived and confirmed that the man was paralysed from the wait down.”

An ambulance was called to take the man to the St John’s Way Medical Centre for a routine medical examination, which found him to be generally in good health. He was then taken to the address found in his possession that morning, of which he claimed to have no recollection of ever visiting. On entering the property police found a number of photographs of the man, along with a passport in the name of ‘Thaddeus Headley’, the photograph of which matched the mystery man.

I spoke to residents of the neighbouring houses, who confirmed that he was indeed resident at the address.

“I’ve seen him going in and out before. Mostly very early in the morning or very late at night, but not for at least 18 months now,” said Brenda Wilson, whose property backs on to that of Mr Headley.