When the wreckage of John Darwin’s canoe was discovered a day after he had set off in the North Sea in 2002 without any sign of the teacher-turned-prison officer, he was presumed dead. But five years later, the then 51-year-old handed himself into UK police claiming he had amnesia.
What would soon be discovered was Darwin’s plan to fake his own death in order for his wife to claim his life insurance, with the almost unbelievable – but true – story the inspiration behind the new miniseries,
