Overview

• Kent Police say Spanish authorities alerted them on September 16 to a death believed to involve a British national, but officers found Nathan Blake alive and notified colleagues in Spain.
• Nathan Blake learned from the British consulate that an impostor had lived under his identity in Spain for about three years and had recently died.
• Spanish authorities reportedly first recorded the stolen identity in 2022 when a suspect arrested in Barcelona gave Blake’s name and passport details and later used at least two aliases.
• Blake has been advised to hire a lawyer in Spain to run criminal‑record checks and ensure offences by the impersonator are not wrongly attributed to him or his passport.
• His partner, Holly West, started a GoFundMe after a viral TikTok about the case, and it remains unclear how the impostor obtained Blake’s personal information.