Eddie Marsan took to the waters for another day of filming ITV’s upcoming drama The Thief, His Wife And The Canoe in County Durham on Sunday. The actor, 52, stars as conman John Darwin, the fraudster who faked his own death by going missing while canoeing off the coast of Seaton Carew in 2002. And it … Read more
Eddie Marsan appeared to be in great spirits as he spent another day filming ITV’s upcoming drama The Thief, His Wife And The Canoe in County Durham on Friday The actor, 52, stars as conman John Darwin, the fraudster who faked his own death by going missing while canoeing off the coast of Seaton Carew in 2002. … Read more
He was announced as being cast to play the role of conman John Darwin in new ITV drama The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe on Monday. And Eddie Marsan cut a rugged figure as he transformed into the fraudster, who faked his own death in 2002, while filming in Seaton Carew on Tuesday. The … Read more
Eddie Marsan has been cast as canoe conman John Darwin in a new ITV drama about the infamous case which saw the fraudster fake his own death. The actor, 52, will be joined by actress Monica Dolan, 52, who will portray his wife Anne in the show called The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe. The couple, … Read more
On Saturday, Carolyn Woods told her astonishing story about how she fell for serial conman Mark Acklom’s lies about being a MI6 spy and gave him her £850,000 life savings. Today, in the final part of a gripping serialisation from her book, she recalls the devastating moment she discovers the truth — and finally faces … Read more
Bernie Madoff, the man behind the biggest and most devastating Ponzi scheme in history that robbed tens of thousands of victims worldwide of $65 billion, went from a high-flying Wall Street financier to living out his dying days in a North Carolina prison. For decades, Madoff – a former chairman of the Nasdaq stock market … Read more
The phone call that shattered the Leeson family’s happiness forever was cold, emotionless; abrupt in its awful finality. When Donald McPherson rang his brother-in-law Neville Leeson from a remote holiday chalet in Denmark to tell him that his only sister Paula had drowned, there was no regret, no tears; not even the courtesy of condolence. … Read more
The phone call that shattered the Leeson family’s happiness forever was cold, emotionless; abrupt in its awful finality. When Donald McPherson rang his brother-in-law Neville Leeson from a remote holiday chalet in Denmark to tell him that his only sister Paula had drowned, there was no regret, no tears; not even the courtesy of condolence. … Read more
The first message was innocent enough — a compliment, piercing the all-encompassing fog of grief like a welcome shaft of light. ‘I like your pictures,’ it read. ‘Which ones?’ replied newly widowed Anne Larkin, flattered. ‘All of them!’ came the response. But this was no dating app. Nor was the online stranger admiring glamorous ‘selfies’. … Read more
The first message was innocent enough — a compliment, piercing the all-encompassing fog of grief like a welcome shaft of light. ‘I like your pictures,’ it read. ‘Which ones?’ replied newly widowed Anne Larkin, flattered. ‘All of them!’ came the response. But this was no dating app. Nor was the online stranger admiring glamorous ‘selfies’. … Read more