It was one of the most controversial missing persons inquiries in British history that earned the husband and wife fraudsters worldwide notoriety.
Twenty years ago, John Darwin faked his own disappearance in a kayak off the north east English coast sparking a massive but ultimately unsuccessful search and rescue mission.
Presumed dead and the search called off, John was actually hold up in a bedsit waiting to claim insurance, benefits and pension to pay off rumoured £700,000 debts in a devious scam.
