The Thief, His Wife and The Canoe

The Thief, His Wife and The Canoe
David Leigh
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Paperback
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6 Jan 2022 UK
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9781529395167
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Soon to be a primetime ITV Drama. The Thief, His Wife and The Canoe tells the astonishing behind-the-scenes drama of the incredible story of Canoe Man John Darwin and his wife Anne. John faked his death at sea in a red canoe rather than face the ignominy of the bankruptcy that was beating at his door. Former Fleet Street journalist Leigh tracked down Anne Darwin at the couple' s new home in Panama where she and her ' dead' husband had planned to start a secret new life together. When their guilt was exposed Anne Darwin agreed to fly back to England with Leigh and turn herself in to Cleveland Police. The runaway train of deceit and guilt which unfolded during an eight-day trial ultimately led to the seemingly most ordinary of couples from the bucket-and-spade town of Seaton Carew, in the north east of England, being jailed for more than six years on a string of money laundering and deception charges. Most shocking of all was the fact that Anne had lied about her husband' s ' death' to the couple' s own two grown-up sons for five and a half years. The Thief, His Wife and The Canoe is the definitive account of an audacious story that at times beggars belief. An objective third person account of a story that has already gone down in English criminal folklore as one of the most outrageous fraud crimes of the century. For fans of classic true crime stories and ITV Dramas such as Quiz, Des, Manhunt and The Pembrokeshire Murders.
David Leigh is an award-winning British investigative journalist and author living and working out of Miami. He is a member of the UK Crime Writers Association. Before moving to Florida to work as Senior News Director for a celebrated news and photographic agency, Leigh worked for British newspapers, including the Daily Mirror, where during his 12-year tenure he worked as a Senior Reporter, News Editor and Foreign Editor covering news stories across the world. He then spent three years as Assistant Editor (Head of News) at the Daily Express, where he oversaw coverage of stories including the 9/11 terrorist atrocities, the Second Gulf War, and the fall of Saddam Hussein. He won two prestigious awards, the National Association of News Agencies' News Story of the Year and the London Press Club' s Scoop of the Year, for his reporting on the incredible ' John Darwin; Canoe Man' story regarding the former school teacher from the north of England who faked his own death and secretly started a new life in Panama, Central America. He later ghost wrote a book for Darwin' s wife Anne, Out of My Depth. Tony Hutchinson brought over forty killers to justice as Head of Cleveland Police Murder Team and led investigations into serial sex offenders, abductions and other series crimes in a career spanning thirty years. In 2007 the Detective Superintendent set-up the first dedicated helpline in the UK for victims of Forced marriage and Honour Based Violence, as well as leading the investigation into John ' Canoe Man' Darwin. He studied three times with the ' founding fathers' of the famed FBI Behavioural Analysis Units. Now retired from the police, he has four novels published in his Dark Tides Thriller series.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781529395167
Published: 6 Jan 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Hodder Paperback
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Format: Paperback
Weight: 300g
Pages: 288

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