Back-from-dead canoeist's wife 'played role with aplomb'

The wife of back-from-the-dead canoeist John Darwin played her role in defrauding £250,000 (€313,314) with “superb aplomb”, a court in the UK heard today.

Anne Darwin, aged 56, convinced insurance companies, a coroner and, “more poignantly”, her sons that he had died in a canoe accident, the court heard.