Missing canoeist appears after five years

Now, more than five years later, he has walked into a London police station but has yet to explain where he has been. Cleveland Police are due to interview him later.

A spokesman said: "Mr Darwin is fit and well and relatives have been informed of his whereabouts.

"It is not known at this time where he has spent the last five-and-a-half years."

Mr Darwin's disappearance sparked agony for his family.

His wife Anne, a doctor's receptionist, said six months after her husband vanished: "People die, have a funeral, they have a headstone, there is something to mark the fact they existed on this earth but without a body, I don't know how we can mark John's life.

"All I want is to bury his body. It would enable me to move on. It's difficult to grieve without bringing things to a close, but as it is I'm in limbo and there's nothing I can do."

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