Joan ending explained: What happened to Joan and Kelly and Boisie's fate?

Joan, which stars Game Of Thrones Sophie Turner, is an ITV play bid based connected the real-life communicative of Joan Hannington

Millions person watched caller ITV transgression play Joan, which covers the beingness of UK's astir notorious jewel thief.

Joan Hannington, besides known arsenic The Godmother, was a prolific transgression successful the transgression underworld of 1980s London who began to bargain diamonds for the thrills and to rise wealth to get her girl retired of foster care.

The bid recreates the events of wherefore Hannington mislaid her kid to foster, her archetypal theft of impulsively swallowing jewels and her beingness of crime.

Written by Anna Symon, the bid was archetypal broadcast connected ITV1, with the full bid presently disposable to beryllium watched connected ITVX. Episode 5 sees Joan program her flight with her hubby Boisie (Fred Dillane), unafraid a passport for her girl Kelly (Mia Millichamp-Long) a passport and 1 last heist - her boss' jewellery shop.

The last occurrence sees the program unfold with terrible consequences - but volition Joan get her freedom? With immoderate scenes inspired by existent events, fans of the bid volition beryllium wondering however the bid ends, if Joan was palmy and if successful fact, did the events of the finale really happen.

What happens successful the ending of ITV's Joan?

Episode six saw Joan execute her program to rob Bernard's (Alex Blake) jewellery store and taking the entirety of the premiere collection.

Joan was told by Boisie astir Paul pulling retired of the raid and called for a rethink, but Joan insisted helium is replaced and the heist goes ahead. Just arsenic Bernard and Joan are astatine the safe, Boisie and Paul's stand-in Gary - besides Kelly's begetter and Joan's ex - tempest the store.

Boisie holds Bernard astatine gunpoint arsenic Gary, carrying a loaded shotgun, continues to raid the store by smashing into the cabinets. After Bernard hears that Joan is successful complaint of the heist, the shocked businessman aims his weapon towards Josie and a diving Boisie is changeable successful the leg.

Gary meantime runs to the van with Albie and they thrust distant arsenic Joan carries a severely injured Boisie retired of the store and into the alleyway. Boisie tells Joan to get her girl Kelly and permission him, arsenic helium bleeds retired and dies successful the alleyway.

Joan continues with her program to instrumentality Kelly distant and poses arsenic an American writer seeking to constitute an nonfiction astir British schoolchildren astatine Kelly's school.

Kelly is thrilled to spot her mother, but Joan tells her to support the concealed and conscionable her astatine the gate. They thrust distant unneurotic and Joan discovers from Albie's heartbroken spouse Val that he's fled the country.

Joan and Kelly question to the pre-arranged hideout caravan but Joan is inactive reeling from the decease of Boisie and struggles to stay calm. Kelly is incapable to marque her parent blessed and aboriginal finds a weapon successful her mother's suitcase.

Joan stops Kelly from firing the weapon and realises she cannot look aft Kelly and drops her disconnected astatine the foster home. Joan gives herself up to the constabulary and is sent to prison.

A flash-forward to 4 years aboriginal sees Joan look retired implicit the Spanish cliffs that she archetypal visited with Boisie. With tattoos covering her puerility scars, Albie greets Joan with a suitcase afloat of wealth for her.

Joan reveals she was released from situation aboriginal for bully behaviour and shares she's going backmost to enactment but leaving down her transgression lifestyle. She tells Albie to permission but arsenic helium walks distant and tells her to beryllium careful, she says: "And you. Watch your f**king back."

Is ITV bid Joan based connected a existent story?

The ITV play is mostly based connected Joan Hannington's memoir I Am What I Am, which covered her jewel heists and transgression lifestyle. You tin bargain a reprint of the publication done Amazon oregon Waterstones.

While the publication served arsenic worldly for the six-part drama, determination are immoderate elements that were changed successful the ITV drama. For instance, the convulsive raid connected Bernard's jewel store ne'er happened, nor did Boisie's decease by being changeable successful the leg.

The existent Boisie Hannington has died, but helium died trying to pain a location down to assertion security money. Giving an exclusive interrogation with the Scottish Daily Record successful 2003, the real-life Joan recounted her clip with Boisie: "He wasn't handsome, but helium was astute and treated maine with respect.

"Officially, Benny was an antiques dealer, but helium made his wealth arsenic a high-class thief. We fell successful emotion and wrong weeks he'd moved in."

Joan was ne'er jailed for an equipped jewellery raid, but she was sentenced to 30 months successful situation for stealing a cheque book. The imprisonment occurred earlier she became a diamond thief.

Joan did person a girl called Debbie but was renamed arsenic Kelly successful the ITV drama. Joan's ex-husband and Debbie's father, Ray Pavey was besides renamed Gary.

In reality, Boisie's decease saw Joan rethink her transgression vocation and she sold her husband’s antiques store and moved to Islington successful northbound London. She began a concern renovating aged assembly houses and kept connected the consecutive and narrow.

Joan Hannington archetypal shared her communicative successful her memoir I Am What I Am successful the aboriginal 2000s and rapidly became a best-selling book. She presently has 2 children, and a granddaughter and she lives connected the South Coast with her 2 dogs.