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British ’Missing Man’ Charged With FraudFiled at 9:24 a.m. ET MANCHESTER, England (AP) A woman whose husband is accused of faking his own death in an insurance scam was arrested Sunday upon her return to Britain on suspicion of fraud, police said. Anne Darwin was arrested at Manchesters airport shortly after arriving from Atlanta, Ga., police said. She had been living in Panama but left that country Wednesday. Authorities said they will likely to begin questioning her on Monday. Her husband, John Darwin, walked into a London police station last week claiming to have amnesia five years after he was believed to have disappeared at sea and declared dead. He was charged on Saturday with life insurance fraud and lying to get a false passport, and was to appear in court Monday. Police say Darwin masterminded an elaborate fraud to pay off family debts. Two British newspapers reported Saturday that Anne Darwin told them her husband had spent much of the last five years hiding at home in northeastern England. Anne Darwin said the couple had tens of thousands of dollars of debts because of the failure of their apartment rental business, the Daily Mail and the Daily Mirror newspapers said. John said there was only one way out of the situation, and that was to fake his death. I pleaded with him not to do it, I said it was the wrong thing to do, the newspapers quoted her as saying. The newspapers said Anne Darwin said had not expected her husband to go through with the plan and genuinely thought he was dead when he disappeared in an apparent canoeing accident in March 2002. But a year later, her husband came knocking at her door, she was quoted as saying. She said her husband pressured her to keep his reappearance a secret so he could have himself declared dead, the newspapers said. He told her that would allow her to collect $50,000 in life insurance and lift the burden of her mortgage. After authorities officially declared him dead, John Darwin moved in with her and hid in a small room reached through a hole in the wardrobe, the papers said. She said the two moved to Panama this year and that her husband was tired of hiding and decided to return to Britain. According to the newspapers, she said the two moved to Panama this year and that her husband was tired of living in hiding and decided to return to Britain, claiming to have forgotten what had happened to him. Tag CloudExternal InformationAdditional InformationWorld Briefing | Europe: Greece: Fight Over Textbooks Escalates...Olympics: Tommie Smith and John Carlos warn of the price of protest... Putin, prince tackle the great outdoors... A war veteran, she’s only 17... Where Am I?News Main Page - Business - British ’Missing Man’ Charged With Fraud |
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