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| Canoe fraudsters to pay £600,000 | |
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| The wife of back-from-the-dead canoeist John Darwin has offered to return more than half a million pounds of fraudulently obtained cash. | The wife of back-from-the-dead canoeist John Darwin has offered to return more than half a million pounds of fraudulently obtained cash. |
| Lawyers for Anne Darwin said she would pay back £591,838 she made from the scam she staged with her husband John, a Proceeds of Crime hearing heard. | Lawyers for Anne Darwin said she would pay back £591,838 she made from the scam she staged with her husband John, a Proceeds of Crime hearing heard. |
| The pair of Seaton Carew, Teesside, were jailed in 2008. | The pair of Seaton Carew, Teesside, were jailed in 2008. |
| They had claimed life insurance and pension cash and embarked on a new life in Panama. | They had claimed life insurance and pension cash and embarked on a new life in Panama. |
| A proceeds of crime hearing to confiscate some of the money started at Leeds Crown Court earlier. | A proceeds of crime hearing to confiscate some of the money started at Leeds Crown Court earlier. |
| Convinced sons | |
| Mrs Darwin, who appeared in court, agreed to pay £363,700.01 compensation to the victims of the crime and £228,138.24 under the terms of the Proceeds of Crime Act. | |
| Her husband, who was not at court has agreed to pay a nominal sum of £1 because he has no financial assets. | |
| The couple had convinced the police, a coroner, financial institutions and even their two sons that John Darwin had drowned while canoeing in the North Sea in 2002. | |
| However, in November 2007 he returned to the UK, telling police he was a missing person with amnesia. | |
| Darwin, 58, was jailed in July 2008 for six years for deception, while 57-year-old Anne Darwin was jailed for six-and-a-half-years for fraud and money-laundering. | |
| In March, they both lost appeals against their sentences. |