A FOOTBALL fan who climbed on top of a stationary train to retrieve a shoe was lucky to survive being hit by 25,000 volts and thrown on to the track, British Transport Police said yesterday.

The wife of back-from-the-dead canoeist John Darwin was convicted today for her role in their £250,000 (€316,795) swindle.

THE wife of the back-from-the-dead canoeist John Darwin used “guile, convincing pretence, persistence and guts” to trick people her husband had drowned and pull off a £250,000 (€313,335) con, a court heard yesterday.