Wife of 'resurrected' Briton arrested in UK
For not telling the truth : Anne Darwin , wife of a man who 'returned from the dead' after apparently being lost at sea in a canoeing accident five years ago has been arrested on her return to Britain, police said yesterday. Picture: Reuters
Monday, December 10, 2007
THE wife of "back-from-the-dead" Briton John Darwin was arrested after arriving back in Britain, police said yesterday, a day after her husband was charged over the alleged faked death plot.
Anne Darwin was detained on her return from Panama, where she was tracked down after her husband walked into a London police station last weekend, claiming to remember nothing since he disappeared five years ago following an apparent canoeing accident.
"Greater Manchester Police arrested a 55-year-old woman in connection with allegations of fraud as part of an investigation being headed by police in Cleveland," said a police spokeswoman.
She was detained on arrival at Manchester airport, and was due to be handed over to Cleveland Police who are leading the probe, the spokeswoman added.
On Saturday John Darwin was charged with fraud, with prosecutors specifically authorising "offences of obtaining a money transfer by deception and making an untrue statement... to procure a passport", a police spokesman said.
He is due to appear in court today, and is expected to be remanded in custody for further questioning.
Darwin was presumed dead after disappearing in March 2002 near his home in Seaton Carew, north-eastern England.
But he reappeared last weekend, telling police officers that he could remember nothing of the last five years, and believed himself to be a missing person.
His wife was tracked down to Panama City and initially claimed shock at his reappearance, before being confronted with a photograph of the couple from last year which had emerged.
In comments to two British newspapers Saturday, Darwin's wife said she went along with his faked death to escape huge debts, and lived with him in secret for years.
"For three years, while virtually everyone close to us believed John was missing, presumed dead, he was actually at home with me," Anne Darwin said in the interview published in the Daily Mail and Daily Mirror tabloids. "I know it seems too incredible to be true, but it is," she added. AFP
Anne Darwin was detained on her return from Panama, where she was tracked down after her husband walked into a London police station last weekend, claiming to remember nothing since he disappeared five years ago following an apparent canoeing accident.
"Greater Manchester Police arrested a 55-year-old woman in connection with allegations of fraud as part of an investigation being headed by police in Cleveland," said a police spokeswoman.
She was detained on arrival at Manchester airport, and was due to be handed over to Cleveland Police who are leading the probe, the spokeswoman added.
On Saturday John Darwin was charged with fraud, with prosecutors specifically authorising "offences of obtaining a money transfer by deception and making an untrue statement... to procure a passport", a police spokesman said.
He is due to appear in court today, and is expected to be remanded in custody for further questioning.
Darwin was presumed dead after disappearing in March 2002 near his home in Seaton Carew, north-eastern England.
But he reappeared last weekend, telling police officers that he could remember nothing of the last five years, and believed himself to be a missing person.
His wife was tracked down to Panama City and initially claimed shock at his reappearance, before being confronted with a photograph of the couple from last year which had emerged.
In comments to two British newspapers Saturday, Darwin's wife said she went along with his faked death to escape huge debts, and lived with him in secret for years.
"For three years, while virtually everyone close to us believed John was missing, presumed dead, he was actually at home with me," Anne Darwin said in the interview published in the Daily Mail and Daily Mirror tabloids. "I know it seems too incredible to be true, but it is," she added. AFP
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