Darwins jailed for canoe death fraud
Published Date:
23 July 2008
JOHN and Anne Darwin were each jailed for more than six years today for carrying out a £250,000 con by faking his death in a canoeing accident.
The 56-year-old wife was convicted by a jury at Teesside Crown Court of six counts of fraud and nine of money laundering today, while the husband admitted fraud at an earlier hearing.
Anne Darwin received six and a half years in jail.
Her husband got six years and three months.
The couple tricked the police, insurance companies and even their two sons Mark, 32, and Anthony, 29, into believing he drowned in the North Sea in 2002 – only for Mr Darwin to turn up at a London police station last year.
They were undone by a photograph of the grinning couple taken in Panama four years after he disappeared.
The full article contains 145 words and appears in Edinburgh Evening News newspaper.
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Last Updated:
23 July 2008 3:22 PM
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Source:
Edinburgh Evening News
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Location:
Edinburgh
