Canoe Man John Darwin ‘coerced’ wife Anne into cover-up, says actress in new drama about infamous fake death con
thesun.co.ukIT was one of the most elaborate cons ever – and stunned the world. John Darwin faked his own death while “canoeing” to claim £250,000 in insurance cash, leaving his wife Anne to feed their sons the devastating lie that their father was dead But five years later the deception was rumbled by an innocuous photo of the grinning couple — taken four years after John “died”.
Former science teacher and prison officer John, then 57, was jailed for six years and three months. But Anne, 56 at the time, was given six and a half years — a heavier tariff that would be unlikely today, given the anti-coercion laws that have since been brought in.
Now new ITV drama The Thief, His Wife And The Canoe shows her as a browbeaten figure who was forced into the fraud. .css-16e4f55{margin:16px 0;}.css-1czxmma{background-color:rgba(252,239,255,1);margin:16px 0;}.css-1tapza8{padding:20px 15px;}.css-1bk4jdt{padding:20px.
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