'Back-from-the-dead' canoeist's wife 'lied at length'

The wife of back-from-the-dead canoeist John Darwin “lied at length” to cover up her part in a £250,000 (€314,193) insurance con, a court heard today.

Even when presented with overwhelming evidence by police, Anne Darwin, aged 56, stuck resolutely to her story that she was a bereaved widow.