How a Supposedly Dead Man Was Found Hiding in Plain Sight #shorts

This is the story of a British prison officer who drowned in a dramatic canoeing accident but then reappeared five years later after he walked himself into a police station.

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[jacoh]

Lived every introvert's ideal life

[Lasagna]

Damn that’s crazy, imagine his neighbor seeing him & being like “Wait, is that? Am I dead too??” 🤣💀

[maszlagma]

"He lived a MISERABLE existence in a grubby one bedroom place..."
... so my life is officially MISERABLE then? 😂😭

[amykins]

Nobody seems to mention those who grieved him like their 2 sons??!! What about the unnecessary pain in their hearts!

[danw]

'somehow went wrong' = posed for online photo together.

[sodapaula]

Ooh I heard about this case. John was the one who screwed everything up (by using money unwisely and being cocky to peers) which resulted in a huge loss for money, so he came up with the plan to pretend that he is dead to get money. He did a lot of stupid things after that, and Anne was in a lot of pressure and guilt because of John. I forgot how they were caught but I can’t imagine much betrayal their children felt. They stopped contacting both parents for a long while.

During their prison sentence, John tried to use Anne to gain attention in the media, and was pretty much a self-centered person. Meanwhile, Anne finally had the opportunity to be left alone to reflect on her actions and questioned her husband in the past. She realized that John doesn’t even love her anymore long before they were caught, and decided to move on with her children and family after she was released from prison. Not excusing her behavior, but I understand why she felt that way.

[kristinupchurch]

Wow, how incredibly selfish of him. I can only imagine the grief he put his children through 😕

[Robnoxious]

i love how he said “he had a pretty miserable life, he lived in one room and spent time with his wife”😂

[SineNmine]

I like how he invented that the other room was 'grubby' to make it sound like he had to suffer while he was basically just living a normal retiree life. I imagine he probably had a lot of time for cleaning during the times they had guests.

[Orphen]

Isn't this the plot from Arrested Development?

[maddog]

He should never have ordered the Air Fryer from Amazon

[MayaMickaMicak]

"We don't talk about John no no no noo, we don't talk about John!"
(The same plot as Encanto)

[Daft_Dhwelk]

With a house that big, even his ancestors could be lurking somewhere.

[CosmicDiscGolf]

Bro he lived there for 5 years after declared dead😂 thats fucking commitment

[KrazyPink_Kerry]

I was in prison with her. I remember everyone in the prison was talking about this case when we heard that she was on the induction wing. (That is the wing everyone goes on when you first go to prison and you stay on there for the first week before you go to the main prison area) she never got out on the main wing area which was C & D wing she got put on protection straight away. She got put on G wing which was the enhanced wing. That was for those that had been seen to be model prisoners. Soo they got special privileges that the main wing didn’t get. We were all pissed at that. Cause it takes ages to earn that normally and she got it right from the start just because her case was high profile. She also always has a prison guard with her everywhere she went. Say like when she went from her wing to her job (Which yes she also automatically got off the best jobs which was working visitation. So she would work at the cafeteria during visitation. Clean up afterwards things like that) so yeah all the girls were super pissed at the special treatment she was getting. The little interaction that we did end up getting with her she just always came off as stuck up and kinda entitled. Like she expected to get all the special treatment she was getting. She laughed about what her and her husband did she definitely wasn’t sorry about it. This was Low Newton prison for anyone curious.
Also at that same time, not sure if any of you remember Baby P’s vile, pathetic, evil excuse for a mother came in as well.
And I can tell you she did not get the same treatment. Her treatment was much more ‘specialised/customised’ Just for her.
Her time in prison was very much hell on earth. Even the prison guards would make it as awful as possible for it.
Oh I tell a lie, the only thing that they basically had to do for her was, obviously she couldn’t get put on the main C & D wing with us as she wouldn’t have made it through the night, (everyone was out for blood with her and rightly so) soo they had to put her on the nonce wing (A wing) but that was the only thing. She got many a beatings I’m sure you will be glad to hear. She even got boiling sugar water thrown on her.
Don’t know where she is now or what prison she is in, if she is still in prison that is. As I can’t remember what her sentence was. So she could even possibly be out now. As this was back in 2007/08
Though I really hope not.

[miniskillet]

"He couldn't do anything or go anywhere. " me who hasn't left the house in months. 😂

[greenbunnyinabongo]

When Covid struck, he must have been like...
I got this 👌

[Prisy]

All these years the sons thought this place was haunted lol

[joshuabiohazzard]

I'd paint myself ghost white from head to toe and just visit old friends like "c'mon, it's your time to go" 😂

[AA-totv]

I remember when this news broke when I was younger. Never judge a book by its cover. They done a massive insurance scam which they nearly got away with.