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From the Afternoon edition of the London Evening Times, 10th May 2010.
CONFUSION AS DEAD MEN SHARE IDENTITY
London Metropolitan Police were presented with a mystery today as two individuals who died in unrelated incidents appeared to have been uncannily similar to one another.
A man who fell under a train at South Kensington station this morning seems to have been found with the same identity documents as another man who jumped to his death from the Canary Wharf office complex at one thirty in the afternoon. Witnesses report that the men were both white males of about thirty years of age wearing white shirts and grey trousers, with horn-rimmed glasses and light brown hair. Neither were seen to have been acting oddly before the incidents, nor do they have left any means to have got to the locations of their deaths.
Further to the eyewitness reports that the two were the same person, the Evening Times can exclusively reveal that pathologists found identical personal effects on both men. These consisted of a travelcard dated to August of 1996, thirteen pounds and fifty two pence in cash, and a photo ID card for the Chelmsford Temporal Physics Science Laboratory.
Initial reports had both men named as a junior-level physicist who worked for the Chelmsford based lab in the mid-nineties, but who has not been known to public records since. These statements were rescinded following the realisation that press were being told that the same man had died twice.
The Temporal Physics lab closed, embroiled in scandal, in 1997 after a government investigation proved a whistle-blower’s report of widespread bypassing of industry imposed safety measures. This occurred in the wake of a series of high profile accidents, including one where the technician named earlier today as both dead men, was first reported to have died, though no body was found at the time.
The lab had been working on theories of dimensional manipulation, gaining massive funding by claiming to have developed a low cost method of instantaneous transportation that required only upscaling to become universally applicable. No other laboratory has since been able to replicate early successful experiments. Some observers at the time stated the closure of the lab to be a step-backward akin to mankind forcibly forgetting writing.
At the time the Evening Times went to press neither Scotland Yard, ex-Chelmsford based scientists, or the family of the named man were willing to issue new comments. The Times will stay on the story and hopes to have new developments to report before the West End final edition this evening.
Later editions of the London Evening Times had no trace of any new developments or reprints of this story.