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The wife of back-from-the-dead canoeist John Darwin has been found guilty of fraudulently claiming £250,000 after helping her husband fake his own death.
Anne Darwin, 56, convinced insurance companies, a coroner and her sons that he had died in a canoe accident.
She was convicted of six counts of fraud and nine of money laundering at Teesside Crown Court.
Mr Darwin, who reappeared five years after vanishing in the sea near Hartlepool, has admitted deception.
Anne Darwin had put forward the defence of "marital coercion", meaning her husband made her act against her will, but her claims were dismissed by the jury.
She kept her husband hidden in the family home in Seaton Carew, then claimed insurance and pension funds.
The couple planned to start a new life together in Panama, but the plot unravelled when John Darwin walked into a London police station last December
She was convicted of five charges of obtaining money by deception, one charge of obtaining property by deception and nine charges of money laundering.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/england/tees/7520803.stm
Published: 2008/07/23 11:45:00 GMT
© BBC MMVIII
Anne Darwin, 56, convinced insurance companies, a coroner and her sons that he had died in a canoe accident.
She was convicted of six counts of fraud and nine of money laundering at Teesside Crown Court.
Mr Darwin, who reappeared five years after vanishing in the sea near Hartlepool, has admitted deception.
Anne Darwin had put forward the defence of "marital coercion", meaning her husband made her act against her will, but her claims were dismissed by the jury.
She kept her husband hidden in the family home in Seaton Carew, then claimed insurance and pension funds.
The couple planned to start a new life together in Panama, but the plot unravelled when John Darwin walked into a London police station last December
She was convicted of five charges of obtaining money by deception, one charge of obtaining property by deception and nine charges of money laundering.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/england/tees/7520803.stm
Published: 2008/07/23 11:45:00 GMT
© BBC MMVIII