Headless body identified

POLICE yesterday identified a headless body found on Monday in Belmont as that of petty thief Ainsley “Beetle” Allen, 23, who lived at two addresses — Upper Bournes Road and Upper Dundonald Hill, St James.

The identification was made after prints taken from the body positively matched those of Allen fingerprint files logged in the Fingerprint Database at Police Headquarters. Allen, sources said had five previous convictions for larceny and was known by police as a “petty thief.”