Canoe Fraudsters Offer to Pay Back £591,838

Anne Darwin of the famous canoe fraudster couple has offered to pay back the more than half-a-million pounds she pocketed from helping to stage her husband’s death, reports BBC news.

John Darwin faked his death by canoeing accident in March 2002.  He and his wife, Anne, then infamously scammed pension and insurance companies before moving to Panama in 2006 to buy property and set up canoeing tours.

By November 2007, Mr. Darwin, who missed his sons, showed up at a UK police station claiming he had amnesia.  Mrs. Darwin then The trouble was that a time-stamped photo surfaced on the Internet a short time later, showing the fraudulent couple with their Move to Panama Real Estate agent, Mario Vilar, in 2006.

In July 2008, Mr. Darwin was sentenced to six years and three months for seven charges of deception, and his wife to six years and six months after being convicted of six counts of fraud and nine counts of money laundering.

Some believe that Anne Darwin has also tricked prison officers into giving her “the best jobs in the nick,” where she earns £12 a week pruning rose bushes around the jail grounds.  If she saves all of her money, by the end of her sentence, she will have £5,046.

In August of this year, John Darwin, smuggled the manuscript of his memoirs, entitled “The Canoe Man, Panama and Back” out of jail through an ex-con posing as his lawyer, and was hoping to sell the story for £1 million.