In May 2005 a man in a tuxedo was found soaking wet wandering a beach at Sheepless in the UK and was taken to a psychiatric hospital in Kent.

The mystery of who he was captivated the media world wide.
Now after searches in several countries involving over 200 names, The Piano Man chose to talk. His story isn’t nearly as glamourous as the speculation about him.

A source at the West Kent NHS and Social Care Trust described as “largely correct” reports that far from being a concert-level pianist struck dumb by an unutterable ordeal, Piano Man is a German former psychiatric worker whose musical skills are seemingly limited to hitting a single key repeatedly.

The German foreign ministry confirmed that the unnamed patient, who is 20, had flown to Munich in his home region of Bavaria on Saturday.

One staff member at the NHS trust said the patient, who had resolutely refused to speak since he was found in a dripping suit on a Kent beach, astonished his carers a week ago by suddenly revealing his family history.

The worker told the Daily Mirror: “A nurse went into his room on Friday and said, ‘Are you going to speak to us today?’ He simply answered, ‘Yes, I think I will’. We were stunned. He has been with us for months and we have got nowhere with him. We thought he was going to be with us for ever.

“We found out he used to work with mentally-ill patients and seems to have used their characteristics. He had us all fooled though, including two very senior doctors.

The Piano Man had lost his job in Paris, arrived in the UK on the EuroStar and was attempting to take his life.
Translators were brought in from Norway to Latvia during the course of his stay at Little Brook Hospital.