ITV's gripping four-part drama, The Thief, His Wife And The Canoe, started on Sunday.
The story of John and his wife, Anne Darwin, captivated the nation when news of John's reappearance broke in 2007 and has now been turned into a much-anticipated series.
The drama focuses on how Anne, played by Monica Dolan, became complicit in her husband’s deception as she started to convince the world, their family and friends, the police and insurance companies, that he had gone missing in 2002 whilst canoeing off the coast of Seaton Carew in Cleveland, where the couple owned two large houses with panoramic views of the sea.
