Last King's Cross victim named

Police trying to identify the last victim of the King's Cross fire disaster 16 years ago believe they now know his name.

The victim has been known only as "Michael" or 115 - the number on his body tag - and has laid unclaimed in Finchley

More than 2,000 leads from around the world have been pursued in a bid to name him.

Now four women have come forward to say they believe he was their father, Alexander Williamson Fallon, from

cemetery. Falkirk, who was a vagrant in London and would have been 72 at the time of the fire in 1987, which killed 32 people.

Today Mr Fallon's eldest daughter, Mary Leishman, who lives in Stirlingshire, told The Times: "One thing that makes us feel certain now is that we have established that no benefits were uplifted in his name after the date of the fire."

Officers are now hoping to carry out DNA tests.