On 13 March, John Darwin admitted seven charges of obtaining cash by deception and a passport offence at Leeds Crown Court. He denied nine charges of using criminal property; these charges will remain on file, according to prosecutors. Anne Darwin denied six charges of deception and nine of using criminal property. On 23 July 2008, John Darwin and Anne Darwin were both convicted of fraud. John Darwin faced an additional charge relating to his fake passport and was sentenced to six years and three months in prison. Anne Darwin, who was described by the police as a compulsive liar, was sentenced to six years and six months. Both appealed against their sentences and on 27 March 2009, both appeals were denied by the Court of Appeal. The Crown Prosecution Service has vowed that all profits from the "callous and calculated" fraud committed by the couple will be confiscated. John Darwin was released on probation in January 2011 and Anne Darwin was released in March 2011. On 14 February 2012, the CPS announced that the entire £501,641.39 in life insurance and pension payouts received by Anne Darwin had been recovered, part of which involved the sale of two properties in Panama. Kingsley Hyland, head of the North East CPS Complex Casework Unit, said: "It is important that fraudsters see that not only will we prosecute them wherever possible, but we will also make every effort to retrieve their ill-gotten gains to return them to those they have defrauded." In April 2014, it was reported that Darwin had repaid just £121 from the £679,073 that the judge had ordered him to repay. However, this was because all the assets were in Anne Darwin's name. By July 2015, the pair no longer had any assets, having repaid a total of £541,762.39. In July 2008, the Channel 4 soap opera, "Hollyoaks" transmitted a storyline similar to the John Darwin case, in which character Jack Osborne faked his death and adapted the identity of the recently deceased Eamon Fisher, with the help of his son, Darren. The story of John and Anne Darwin was dramatised in the BBC Four programme "Canoe Man" in 2010. The film starred Bernard Hill and Saskia Reeves as John and Anne Darwin, respectively. Musician Martin Gordon documented the story with the song "Panama" from his 2009 release "Time Gentlemen Please". In fiction, it inspired a 2009 novel by Adrian Gere called "Return from the Dead", and a 2010 storyline in the ITV soap opera "Coronation Street" saw the character Joe McIntyre attempt the same thing.