But I never thought Darwin could have stolen it from him. "When I heard Darwin was using the name John Jones, I did think 'That's my brother's name'. Speaking in 2007 the sister of the dead baby, Frieda Woods, who lives close to the cemetery where her brother is buried, said: "It's terrible to think that this man may have used my brother's name in his scheme. In the build up, Fox trawls graveyards looking for the headstone of a baby boy whose name will be the basis of a false identity. In the best-selling novel, later turned into a movie, a character trawls graveyards looking for the headstone of a baby boy whose name will be the basis of a false identity. His suspected ploy could have been taken from the pages of Frederick Forsyth's classic The Day of the Jackal, the book which he is seen reading in the opening episode of the ITV drama.
Police believe he chanced on John Jones - a baby born five months before him but who sadly died a month later.ĭarwin reportedly used John's name to acquire a birth certificate then used the document alongside a black and white photo of himself sporting a long bushy beard to get a passport. Get the news you want straight to your inbox. In real life, twisted John scoured graveyards and records in local papers searching for a name he could use and stole the identity of a dead baby. In the second episode of new ITV drama The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe, viewers will see John successfully applying for a passport to create a new identity while forcing Anne to demand an inquest into his death so they can get the insurance pay out. While a manhunt for John began, he was secretly living in the woods before moving into a bedsit next to the family home which he could access through a door behind Anne's wardrobe.
The former couple lied to the police, their friends, family and even their two heartbroken sons, who disowned their parents and have only recently began building bridges. The 71-year-old conman came up with a vile scheme to pretend he had died out at sea in a canoe accident in 2002, while ex-wife Anne Darwin collected his £250,000 life insurance policy. John Darwin committed a disgusting crime when he faked his own death - but his most sickening act was yet to come.
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