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Canoe couple jailed over £250,000 insurance fraud

FRAUDSTERS John and Anne Darwin have been jailed for more than six years for a £250,000 con by faking his death in a canoeing accident. Read

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Anne Darwin, who used to work as a doctor's receptionist in Durham, has been jailed for six-and-a-half years for her part in the £250,000 con which saw her husband John fake his death. Despite playing the part of the grieving widow for five years, the pair had secretly started a new life in Panama. Click here to listen to her police interview.

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