When John Darwin walked into a police station claiming he had amnesia after faking his own death, officers called his shocked family to tell them the unbelievable news.
Sons Mark and Anthony rushed to the London police station in December 2007 to be reunited with their beloved dad.
But their grandfather Ronnie, John's father, had a more cutting reply when journalists arrived at his home in Blackhall Colliery, six miles north of Hartlepool, in County Durham, after the news broke.