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Back From The Dead: The John Darwin Story

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The remarkable story of a British prison officer who faked his own death

 Five and a half years after the baffling canoe accident, the man said to have perished in the icy waters of the North Sea; now officially dead - walked into a London police station, claiming he had lost his memory and didn't know who he was. 

His wife – by now living in Panama - claimed to be shocked at his reappearance, but when journalists discovered photos of Anne Darwin and her husband in their new Central American flat, the police moved in. In the UK, police arrested John Darwin and it was revealed he had spent some time hiding in a bedsit next door whilst she waited to claim his life insurance. A few days later, Anne Darwin flew in and she was also charged with fraud.

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