‘Gewoon’ een depressieve Duitse homo die goed een gek na kan doen dus…
The mysterious so-called Piano Man has been discharged from the care of a NHS Trust after being exposed as a fake, according to reports. Following a “marked improvement” in his condition, the unidentified man is no longer being treated, a spokesman for the West Kent NHS and Social Care Trust said.
Social workers have spent tens of thousands of pounds over months trying to help the man, who had been silent since he was found wandering aimlessly near a beach on the Isle of Sheppey in April wearing a dripping wet suit and tie.
He was dubbed the Piano Man by the media after the Trust said he “played classical music beautifully for four hours” to carers.
But today a newspaper reported that the man finally broke his silence last week, revealing to staff that he was a gay German who had made his way to the UK on the Eurostar after losing his job in Paris.
It is claimed that he was trying to commit suicide when police picked him up on the Kent beach in April.
Reports said the man used to work with mentally-ill patients and is thought to have copied some of their characteristics to fool doctors into believing he had a strange illness.
It is also claimed that he could only actually tap one key repeatedly on the piano, rather than recite pieces of classical music.
Various lines of inquiry were thrown up, including suggestions that he was a musician from the Czech Republic and a student living in Norway, but most were proved to be false.
Miko Flohr, 22/08/2005