John Darwin

It's almost hard to believe that The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe is a true story, but as with many real-life TV dramas, reality can be as mind-bending as ...

The father-of-two faked his own death before being arrested in Hampshire.

The barely believable true story of how former prison officer John Darwin faked his own death in a canoe accident is being retold in an ITV drama.

ITV's The Thief, His Wife and The Canoe launches on ITV on Sunday night and revisits the John Darwin canoe man scandal.

The ITV drama explores John Darwin's big scam and how it was carried out. It also shows how his wife Anne became complicit in her husband's bizarre deception to ...

John Darwin and his wife were handed more than six years behind bars for the fraud.

John Darwin, who was jailed for faking his own death in a plot with ex-wife Anne Darwin, now lives in the Philippines but refused to contribute to new ITV ...

A long awaited TV adaptation of the tale of canoe conman John Darwin is set to hit screens thanks to ITV. By James Harrison. Sunday, 17th April 2022 ...

John Darwin faked his own death in 2002 by pretending he had drowned · He and his wife Anne had colluded to carry out a £680,000 insurance fraud ...

Twenty years on from his attempt at faking his own death, John Darwin's colleagues have revealed that he was almost caught red-handed while gardening ...

The fraudster was taking risks because he was so cocky about not being recognised in his disguise of a beard and a hat. While his two sons mourned his “death”, ...

The 71-year-old fraudster faked his own death back in 2002 in a dishonest plot with ex-wife Anne Darwin, who played the grieving widow and helped him ...

John is the subject of new ITV show The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe - and here's where he is now.

The first episode of the four-part series about John and Anne Darwin aired on Sunday.