Wajahat Sheikh

DO you know who got away with a murder on the dance floor?

This is the question the Tribune asks ahead of what will be the 21st anniversary of a case which so far looks set to remain unsolved for ever.

Unless someone does the right thing and steps forward with new information.

Student Wajahat Sheikh died after being attacked at the Scala nightclub in King’s Cross in May 2002 – but detectives have long since ceased issuing appeals for help.

The 21-year-old’s case is rarely mentioned but around 500 people – all potential witnesses – were inside the King’s Cross nightclub on the night he was delivered a fatal blow.

Eyewitnesses said Mr Sheikh had tried to break up a fight before being caught off guard by what was described later as a flying drop-kick that sent him crashing to the floor.

Police agreed he seemed to be an innocent party in the fracas.

The assailant slipped out of the club and has never been properly identified – one person inside the club could not help more than describing him as having “googly eyes”.

A £10,000 reward went unclaimed. Seven men were arrested but nobody was charged.

“Mr Sheikh was a young man who had his whole life ahead of him and I would ask all persons who may have information in connection with his death but who have not yet come forward to do so,” the detective in charge of the case said at the time – but the crucial lead never came.

As time has passed, Mr Sheikh has become the forgotten victim of that tragic time.

His family did not live in London and the newspaper tributes instead came from his flatmates in a shared house in Crouch End.

The only picture that ever surfaced was a creased passport photo.

The Tribune runs an appeal every year in his name.