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'Dead' canoeist's wife: We were in debt
Topic Started: Dec 8 2007, 04:22 PM (169 Views)
Steelstallions
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml...8/ncanoe608.xml

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The wife of the canoeist John Darwin has revealed that her husband faked his death to escape their debts, despite reports that her husband gave police a different version of events.Anne Darwin, 55, claimed that her husband planned his disappearing act at the beginning of 2002 to escape tens of thousands of pounds worth of debt from a failing property portfolio.
 
Anne Darwin says her husband showed up in 2003

She also said that, within a year of his disappearance, Mr Darwin, 57, had moved back into the family home in Seaton Crew, Hartlepool and was using a secret bedsit next door as a bolthole to hide from friends, relatives and his sons.

But reports this morning have revealed that her astonishing claims differ to the account John Darwin gave to police about his disappearance.

On March 21 2002, Mr Darwin took his red canoe out to sea and vanished. The canoe was found a few weeks later.

The Northern Echo, quoting a Cleveland Police source, said that Mr Darwin told officers he could remember taking his canoe out to sea, "coming to" months later and making his way back to his home in Seaton Carew.


The part of this story that made me more angry than the fraud, was the fact that search parties covered a 200 mile radius search of the sea for him.
Putting their lives at risk for a crooked fraudster
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Steelstallions,Dec 8 2007
04:22 PM


The part of this story that made me more angry than the fraud, was the fact that search parties covered a 200 mile radius search of the sea for him.
Putting their lives at risk for a crooked fraudster

Me too. Six lifeboat crews and an Air/Sea Rescue Helicopter from RAF Boulmer spent 16 hours risking their lives for this [insert appropriate word here]. The fact that I know one of the lifeboatmen involved has no bearing on my anger (honest).

I must admit, my first reaction on hearing of Darwin's arrival at a police station and announcing he may be a "missing person" was if he'd lost his memory how the hell would he know he was missing?

The one thing I don't understand about this case is why the sons (one in property and one in insurance) gave up their jobs recently, despite their protests of innocence. More importantly, why did the sons transfer money to their mother's Panama bank account?

Are the sons going to be questioned by police as well, I wonder?
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They were in debt?

They're in deep $hit now! <LOL>
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