Wednesday, December 05, 2007

Missing Canoeist Part 2


Certianly a scoop for the Mirror this morning as it publishes a photograph of the missing canoeist John Darwin and his wife posing in Panama.

According to the paper

the manager of a holiday firm said the couple rented a room in Panama City in July 2006 and posed for the extraordinary picture on the company's website.
Former prison officer Darwin, 57, and Anne are both grinning as they audaciously pose for the photo beside Mario Vilar, boss of Move to Panama.
He said: "They said they were starting a new life in Panama and we helped them get their feet on the ground. Then they moved on. I thought nothing of it. The first I heard there was anything unusual about them was when your newspaper called


Many of the papers had tracked his wife down to Panama,amongst them the Mail which carries the interview on its front page under the headline

'Yes, I DID pocket the life insurance'

She said she could not return immediately to see her husband because of problems over her Panama visa which she had to resolve.
And she was waiting for her furniture to arrive.
"As soon as everything is sorted out, of course I'll be straight back," she promised.
Mrs Darwin rejected any suggestion that she was complicit in her husband's disappearance but said she accepted people would be surprised that she had not dashed back to England.

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