Given Ian's previous mental health issues it is surprising how well he's coped with everything. It is a strange story to have had - but people usually get locked up for the insurance fraud (canoe man and his wife got 6 years - and A compensation hearing to determine how the couple can pay back the £250,000 they defrauded will take place at a later date.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tees/7520803.stm
And she agreed to pay 600k back
[url]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/6544451/Canoe-man-fr
He had no assets and so only had to pay a quid back - so maybe if Kathy has no money then they can't take any back.
I spose from a storyline point of view there'd be no point bringing her back from the dead only to lock her away for 6 years - unless they were going to do a prison spinoff with all the people from EE in prison at the moment.
If they'd not caught Gavin then how can they have found the truth - they've only got Kathy's word for it. But again it's soap not real life.