Canoe Man

The four-part ITV drama named The Thief, His Wife And The Canoe will tell the story of how Mr Darwin faked his own death as part of an insurance scam. The ...

Just 14 months after John Darwin faked his death at sea, his cover was nearly blown when he was seen gardening outside his home. The fraudster was taking ...

The Thief, His Wife and The Canoe on ITV tells the story of 'Canoe Man' John Darwin - there was one key error that got him sent down.

The four-part ITV drama named The Thief, His Wife And The Canoe will tell the story of how Mr Darwin faked his own death as part of an insurance scam.

The Thief, His Wife and The Canoe was inspired by a book of the same name, co-written by Tony Hutchinson, a former Cleveland detective who investigated the ...

The day was clear and the sea calm when John Darwin set off in his canoe from Seaton Carew on the Co Durham coast on March 21, 2002.

For the programme makers, the story of John Darwin was the gift that just kept giving – a story where fact was definitely stranger than fiction.

As a new ITV drama tells the tale of 'Canoe Man' John Darwin, we look back at the story of the Kent fraudster who tried to pull off a similar scam...