ITV confirm drama about back from dead canoe conman John Darwin
The four part series The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe will explore the shocking canoe scandal
File photo dated 08/07/14 of canoe fraudster John Darwin leaving Teesside Crown Court, Middlesbrough, as he will be back before the courts after it emerged he had repaid just £122 of the hundreds of thousands he conned out of insurance companies by faking his own death. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Thursday May 29, 2014. A Proceeds of Crime Act hearing at Teesside Crown Court will decide how much more the 63-year-old must hand back now that a pension has matured. It was the same court where the ex-teacher and former prison officer was jailed with his wife Anne in 2008 for fraud. A judge has previously ordered he should repay £679,073 but the divorced Darwin, now living in Seaton Carew near Hartlepool and claiming benefits, has only been able to hand back £122. Anne Darwin, now split from her husband, has repaid