The Sunday Times Magazine • 35The curious case of
John Darwin, who faked
his own death with the help
of his wife, Anne, is now a TV
drama. Audrey Ward meets
the man who broke the story
Above: John during his
surprise reappearance
at a London police
station in 2007; the
couple in court, 2008Below: the canoe in
which John set sail on
March 21, 2002, and
which later washed up
with no sign of his body