A man who plummeted from a plane and landed on a street in East Sheen last year has finally been identified.

José Matada, 30, fell 2,000ft from the undercarriage of a Heathrow-bound flight in September and landed in Portman Avenue, East Sheen.

Detectives originally thought Mr Matada was Angolan but, following analysis of a Sim card found in his jeans, they were able to extract telephone numbers stored on it.

After contacting the numbers, detectives received information that Mr Matada was in fact from Mozambique.

It was thought Mr Matada was from Angola because Angolan currency was found on him and enquiries established that a flight from Luanda, Angola, was overhead prior to the body being found.

Detectives are speaking to authorities in Mozambique to track down his family.

Police were called at just before 8am on Sunday, September 9, to Portman Avenue, following reports of a dead body.

London Ambulance Service attended and the man was pronounced dead at the scene.

At the time resident Annie Williams, who lives in the house nearest to where the body fell, said she heard a loud noise when she was opening her curtains.

She said: “I heard a monstrous bang. I thought someone had been hit by a car. There were two fellows going to church and they said there’s a dead body in the street. Not your usual Sunday in Sheen.”

The 47-year-old said there were remains of the body on her car and doorstep, which were later cleaned by a council worker.

She said: “We were asked to stay inside because there was splatter on the doorstep.”

A post-mortem examination was held at Kingston Hospital Mortuary on September 11 last year and gave the cause of death as multiple injuries.

An inquest has opened and adjourned at West London Coroner’s Court.