Canoe man reveals life without proper bedding
Published: 19 August 2009
In his smuggled memoirs, John Darwin has informed a national newspaper of his life of austerity after faking his own death, complaining of his sleeping arrangements without so much as a whiff of a duvet cover or other bedding.
A man famous for faking his own death off the coast of Hartlepool has revealed his austere existence in the weeks after he died in the eyes of the nation.Leaving his house in Seaton Carew for good in order to purposely capsize his red kayak in the North Sea before moving to Panama and starting his new life, John Darwin told the Sun that he had to go camping for a few weeks while the heat died down.
He detailed his Spartan living arrangements, describing the "utter misery" he was in during his days in a tent in Carlisle, where dinner consisted of Mars bars and pies and all he had in the way of bedding was a constantly deflating air mattress without any bed linen or duvet cover.
Mr Darwin then disguised himself as an old man, buying a walking stick, sheepskin coat and flat cap to deceive locals in his north-east hometown.
After John Darwin was arrested and brought to trial in Hartlepool, the residents made a new sign for Seaton Carew, the seaside resort in the town: "Seaton Canoe: Twinned with Panama".
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