Previous ‘missing’ men cases

JOHN DARWIN is not the first person to go missing, feared dead, who has later appeared safe and well.

Former Labour MP John Stonehouse left a pile of his clothes on Miami Beach on November 20 1974 to create the impression he had drowned while swimming.

But a month later, he was picked up by police in Melbourne, Australia, where he had gone to start a new life with his mistress and former secretary, Sheila Buckley.