The Canoe Con | Missing | 1
British Scandal
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4.4 • 7.2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2021
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Prison officer John Darwin finds himself in debt and makes a drastic decision to fake his own death.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Prime Members. You can listen to British scandal at free on Amazon Music. Download the app today. |
| 0:11.9 | Miss Levine. Mr Matthew. Mr Matthew. Don't know your surname. I like it. |
| 0:16.1 | Fools, come on man. Read out the end of every episode. I've told it you multiple times. |
| 0:23.3 | It's my turn to lead this series and it's a slightly different story. What have all our British |
| 0:28.0 | scandals had in common so far? They've made me go, this is bonkers every two minutes. Yes, but also |
| 0:34.7 | they've all been mainly focused in London. Yes, that is true. Apart from all that time we spent in |
| 0:41.0 | Singapore and Moscow. Okay, overlook the fact that what I just said was factually inaccurate. |
| 0:45.9 | The British elements of most of our stories have sometimes been in London apart from the heaven. |
| 0:52.0 | I would agree with that. Thank you. This one though is different. Alice, I'm going to take you to |
| 0:56.8 | Seton Karoo. The bright lights. Genoa it is? No. It's in the northeast of England. |
| 1:04.4 | It's 2.45pm Thursday the 21st of March 2002. Seton Karoo in the northeast of England. |
| 1:12.9 | John Darwin stands at his bedroom window. He picks up his binoculars, looks at the sea. |
| 1:19.0 | He's been waiting days for perfect weather conditions. Right now the sea is calm, but not too calm. |
| 1:25.1 | He hurries downstairs, puts on a life jacket, hides it with a thick fleece, pulls a woolen |
| 1:31.5 | hat over his thinning hair. A few minutes later he drags his homemade red kayak a few yards across |
| 1:38.6 | the road to the beach. It's heavy, weighted down with everything he needs to sleep rough, a small tent, |
| 1:45.6 | a sleeping bag, clothes and food. He drags the kayak to the water, he looks around for passes by, |
| 1:53.1 | but the beach is deserted. He gets in and paddles a short distance up the coast. |
| 2:00.0 | He drifts for a while, unsure what to do. He sees two women in the distance walking a dog, |
| 2:06.1 | he paddles towards them. The dog heads straight for him, it's perfect. He waits until the |
| 2:12.0 | women are close enough, then he starts barking at the dog. The women look startled, he waves at them. |
| 2:17.7 | Nice dog, I've got two rockwilers, Meg and Zena. Cool chat dude. He can tell they want to leave, |
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