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The Guardian - UK
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John and Anne Darwin: An audacious fraud

Death fraud: John and Anne Darwin
Anne Darwin and her husband, John, who faked his own death in a canoe accident Photograph: PA
Death fraud: John and Anne Darwin
Seaton Carew, Teesside: The beach where John Darwin went missing Photograph: Owen Humphreys/PA
Death fraud: John and Anne Darwin
Seaton Carew: John Darwin lived in the house on the right. The left-hand house is also believed to have been owned by the couple Photograph: Scott Heppell/AP
Death fraud: John and Anne Darwin
Panama City, Panama: The front of the building that the couple moved into, believing they had got away with the fraud Photograph: Geovanni Hernandez/EPA
Death fraud: John and Anne Darwin
The front page of the Daily Mirror after a photograph emerged showing the couple together with a Panamanian estate agent Photograph: Daily Mirror/PA
Death fraud: John and Anne Darwin
December 7 2007, Hartlepool: John Darwin leaves Hartlepool magistrates court after police were granted another 36 hours to question him Photograph: Owen Humphreys/PA
Death fraud: John and Anne Darwin
December 9 2007, Manchester: Anne Darwin leaves Manchester airport after being arrested on her return to Britain from the US Photograph: Getty
Death fraud: John and Anne Darwin
December 19 2007, Middlesborough: Detective Superintendent Tony Hutchinson of Cleveland police holds a faked passport picture of John Darwin Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty
Death fraud: John and Anne Darwin
July 15 2008, Middlesbrough: Anthony (left) and Mark Darwin leave Teesside crown court after giving evidence against their mother, Anne Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty
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