200 miles away in the Midlands was where Graham Cardwell wanted to be reborn.
In September 1998 he started the process at the mud flats alongside the Humber river with a pile of clothes - the harbour master reasoned that a new existence would help him cope with what he believed to be the onset of cancer.
His wife and three children knew the reasons but not the falsehood, believing him to have died out on the estuary's banks. Surprise must have been one of the emotions felt when he was found under an assumed name eight months later in the Midlands.
After explaining his actions to the police, he was allowed to remain in his new skin and left to live the life chosen.
In September 1998 he started the process at the mud flats alongside the Humber river with a pile of clothes - the harbour master reasoned that a new existence would help him cope with what he believed to be the onset of cancer.
His wife and three children knew the reasons but not the falsehood, believing him to have died out on the estuary's banks. Surprise must have been one of the emotions felt when he was found under an assumed name eight months later in the Midlands.
After explaining his actions to the police, he was allowed to remain in his new skin and left to live the life chosen.
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