In 1973, Janus Thickey faked his own death by pretending that a Lethifold had eaten him. He scribbled a note on his beside table that read "oh no a Lethifold's got me I'm suffocating", and his wife and children were so convinced by it, and the fact that his bed was still neatly made, that they entered a period of mourning.
However, their mourning was cut sort when Janus was found to be living five miles away, with the landlady of the Green Dragon.
The Janus Thickey ward at St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries is presumably named after him.