When John Darwin turned up at a London police stations five years after going missing at sea it caused a stir. The former prison officer from a North-east seaside town told officers he had no idea where he has been.
But as the truth unravelled it revealed a story as far fetched as any novel. For it transpired Darwin had staged his own death to collect insurance money, lied to his sons and then moved to Panama where he lived with his wife, Anne.
The couple both ended up serving jail terms for their deception. But as the ITV show The Thief, His Wife and The Canoe airs this week telling the barely believable story, many are wondering what the man behind the fraud is doing now.
