Thomas Gleeson

Thomas Gleeson died in a fire at a house in January 1982.

His death was described as being due to misadventure at the time, but it was reviewed again following the murder of Donuta Kaczmarska whose house it was.

Thomas Gleeson was identified by a piece of filling that he had lost from a tooth.

Thomas Gleeson had been an out-of work barrister.

He had lived in Dawes Road, Fulham in London and had been staying with Donuta Kaczmarska at the time, who was herself later murdered in the same house and set on fire in 1986.

Donuta Kaczmarska had kept the filling after Thomas Gleeson lost it, and she later handed it to the police to help with his formal identification and it was later matched by a dental expert.

Donuta Kaczmarska said that Thomas Gleeson had had a drink problem and used to be careless with cigarettes.

Donuta Kaczmarska said that on the day of his death that she had called him from her surgery to make sure he had not gone back to sleep.

His inquest found that during the morning he had gone out during the morning and bought a bottle of wine, a bottle of rum and some cigarettes and the pathologist later found a large amount of alcohol in his blood.

His inquest found that he died  from inhaling smoke and his inquest returned a verdict of misadventure. However, following Donuta's murder, an ex-policeman later commented that because of the circumstances surrounding Thomas Gleeson's death that he would have thought it should have been an open verdict at the least.