So, what is the true story behind The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe? What happened to John Darwin?īack in 2002, father-of-two John Darwin was living a seemingly normal life he resided in Hartlepool and worked as a prison officer. You know, they have told their story a lot in public none of them wanted to." But no, they didn't want to get involved. "So, you know, I think hopefully has been able to reassure her that it is as sympathetic a telling of her story as is possible, given what she did. " David Leigh, who was the journalist who broke the story, does still speak with Anne and has a good relationship with her," Lang said. Speaking about the new four-part series inspired by the Darwins, the show's writer, Chris Lang said at a recent Q&A that neither John, Anne or either of their two sons, Anthony and Mark, were involved in the programme. The reality though, was that the Darwins had found themselves to be massively in debt and were looking for a way to claim back money on John's life insurance.Įventually, after moving to Panama, John hit a wall with VISA rules and decided the best thing he could possibly do was to hand himself in to the police and claim he'd been struck down by amnesia. In a nutshell: the couple first became known to the public after being convicted of fraud in 2008, after hatching a scheme that saw John fake his own death in an apparent canoeing accident. For anybody who's been glued to ITV's new drama, The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe, which details the elaborate death faking scam (complete with canoe) of prison officer John Darwin, aided by his wife, Anne, you may be wondering what the true story actually is – along with where John and Anne Darwin are today.
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