English husband and wife team jailed for fraud

Kyrgyzstan News.Net
Wednesday 23rd July, 2008

A British man who staged his own disappearance to collect the life insurance has been sentenced to over six years' imprisonment.

His wife has been given an additional three months for her part in the fraud.

John and Anne Darwin set up the elaborate fraud when 52-year-old John Darwin went missing in 2002.

His wife told the police he had failed to return from a canoeing trip.

The man was declared dead and Anne Darwin collected the insurance money.

The couple started a new life in Panama and even their two sons thought their father had drowned in the North Sea.

The scam was discovered when the man turned up in Britain last year.

He pretended to be suffering from amnesia, but was quickly brought back down to earth by a Scotland Yard investigation.

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