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13/03/2008
'Lost' Darwins Due In Court
John Darwin, the man who faked his death in a canoe accident, has appeared in court today, along with his wife, to face deception charges.
Mr Darwin, 57, pleaded guilty to seven charges of obtaining cash by deception, as well as passport offences at Leeds Crown Court on Friday. However, he denied nine charges of using criminal property.
His wife, Anne, 55, denied six deception charges and nine charges of using criminal property.
Mr Darwin will not face trial for the charges he denied, which will be left to lie on file. Mrs Darwin is due to stand trial at Teesside Crown Court on July 14.
Mr Darwin vanished in March 2002 after going out in his canoe in the sea, opposite the couple's home in Seaton Carew, near Hartlepool in Teesside.
A huge air-sea search was launched, but his body was not found, and he was pronounced dead by police and a coroner in 2003.
Mr Darwin was not seen again until he walked in a London police station on December 1 last year and told them that he could not remember where he had been and thought he was a 'missing person'.
He was later arrested at his son's home in Basingstoke in Hampshire on suspicion of fraud.
Mrs Darwin was arrested after she returned to the UK from Panama, shortly after her husband's arrest.
(KMcA)
Mr Darwin, 57, pleaded guilty to seven charges of obtaining cash by deception, as well as passport offences at Leeds Crown Court on Friday. However, he denied nine charges of using criminal property.
His wife, Anne, 55, denied six deception charges and nine charges of using criminal property.
Mr Darwin will not face trial for the charges he denied, which will be left to lie on file. Mrs Darwin is due to stand trial at Teesside Crown Court on July 14.
Mr Darwin vanished in March 2002 after going out in his canoe in the sea, opposite the couple's home in Seaton Carew, near Hartlepool in Teesside.
A huge air-sea search was launched, but his body was not found, and he was pronounced dead by police and a coroner in 2003.
Mr Darwin was not seen again until he walked in a London police station on December 1 last year and told them that he could not remember where he had been and thought he was a 'missing person'.
He was later arrested at his son's home in Basingstoke in Hampshire on suspicion of fraud.
Mrs Darwin was arrested after she returned to the UK from Panama, shortly after her husband's arrest.
(KMcA)
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