Anne Darwin - Compulsive Liar
Back-from-the-dead canoeist's wife Anne Darwin has been described as "despicable" and "a compulsive liar" after being found guilty of fraud and money laundering earlier today.
Detective Inspector Andy Greenwood of Cleveland Police described Mrs Darwin as "out and out despicable, I just don’t have the time of day for her".
He continued: "Instead of doing the decent thing and selling their properties and their car and paying back the people they owed, they just wouldn’t do it - they thought it was beneath them, they constructed this web of deceit."
Mrs Darwin was found guilty after only a day of jury deliberations at Teesside Crown Court. She is due to be sentenced this afternoon, along with husband John who pleaded guilty to his offences.
The couple benefited to the tune of around £250,000 after making a series of fraudulent insurance and pension claims in the wake of John's staged disappearance on 21st March 2002. I wrote about the progress of the trial last week.
Suffice to say the jury found Anne's claims of marital coercion as far fetched as I did.
Gale Gilchrist of the Crown Prosecution Service said: "There is no doubt that this was a callous and calculated fraud. Both the Darwins were willing to deceive and manipulate members of their family and friends, and to waste considerable resources of the emergency services.
"In addition, they were willing to exploit any compassion extended to them."
I shall publish details of John and Anne Darwin's sentences here as soon as they are announced.
Edit: Sentence details as promised:
Detective Inspector Andy Greenwood of Cleveland Police described Mrs Darwin as "out and out despicable, I just don’t have the time of day for her".
He continued: "Instead of doing the decent thing and selling their properties and their car and paying back the people they owed, they just wouldn’t do it - they thought it was beneath them, they constructed this web of deceit."
Mrs Darwin was found guilty after only a day of jury deliberations at Teesside Crown Court. She is due to be sentenced this afternoon, along with husband John who pleaded guilty to his offences.
The couple benefited to the tune of around £250,000 after making a series of fraudulent insurance and pension claims in the wake of John's staged disappearance on 21st March 2002. I wrote about the progress of the trial last week.
Suffice to say the jury found Anne's claims of marital coercion as far fetched as I did.
Gale Gilchrist of the Crown Prosecution Service said: "There is no doubt that this was a callous and calculated fraud. Both the Darwins were willing to deceive and manipulate members of their family and friends, and to waste considerable resources of the emergency services.
"In addition, they were willing to exploit any compassion extended to them."
I shall publish details of John and Anne Darwin's sentences here as soon as they are announced.
Edit: Sentence details as promised:
- John Darwin - 6 years, 3 months imprisonment.
- Anne Darwin - 6 years, 6 months imprisonment.
3 comments:
Just blogged about this myself, was that sentence long enough? But anyone looking for life insurance
Life insurance? You must think I'm green as cabbage looking?!
On this occasion I'll let it slide.
I meant to say...on that note' lol.
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