The Mirror newsroom is being recreated for an ITV drama based on back-from-the-dead canoe man John Darwin. The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe will feature our Canary Wharf HQ as we uncovered the £1 million fraud by John, now 70, and his then-wife Anne, 69.
It will also feature our headline “Canoe’s this in Panama?” on December 5, 2007, over a photo of the couple in an estate agent’s office there.
The photo exposed their lies and led to their arrests and six-year terms for fraud. It emerged days after John had returned from Panama.
He claimed he had amnesia as he handed himself in at a police station in London. Anne had said she thought he was dead after reporting him missing at sea in a canoe accident in 2002.
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