£500k seized from wife of hoax death canoeist

Prosecutors in the UK have recovered more than half a million pounds from the wife of back-from-the-dead canoeist John Darwin.

Prosecutors in the UK have recovered more than half a million pounds from the wife of back-from-the-dead canoeist John Darwin.

Darwin, 61, faked his own death in a canoeing accident in 2002 so his wife Anne, 60, could claim hundreds of thousands of pounds from insurance policies and pension schemes.

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