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I'm Simoniste Delaney, so welcome to History Box and we're currently looking at the John Darwin

Canoe Disappearance, Life Insurance Fraud Case from 2007 and we've just reached the stage where

he disappears. We've done the background stuff, we've done Cheryl Cole's possible take over at

Newcastle United as manager, we've done the bizarre life and we've done Glenn Hoddle.

So let's get on now back to the disappearance of John Darwin. It says, hey, of course, if you're

not familiar with this, we're working solely from the Wikipedia page of this incident. Disappearance

Darwin was seen paddling out to sea in his kayak on the 21st of March 2002 at Seaton Karoo,

which of course is where he bought two houses in December 2000, the debts from which

caused him to talk about faking his own death. Now, later the same day, it says he was reported as

missing after failing to report to work. He was working as a prison officer. A large-scale

sea search took place during which 62 square miles of course lane was searched. That's a big old

faking search, isn't it? Yeah, I bet he wasn't expecting that because I bet when he was

planning to end in a day, I fuck off on a faking kayak. No one's going to f**king know this,

yeah. You report me missing. They might, you would expect, you think they might send out a f**king

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