Police will arrest the wife of the canoeist who reappeared five years after he was presumed drowned when she returns to Britain from Central America, media reports said yesterday.
Anne Darwin, 55, is reportedly flying home from Panama after telling reporters that she has been "living a lie" and fears her children will never forgive her.
Her husband John Darwin was arrested this week on suspicion of fraud after walking into a London police station and telling officers he believed they might be looking for him.
Darwin, 57, vanished in March 2002 from his home in northeast England. Since reappearing, the former prison officer's family says he has no memory of events since 2000.
In an interview in yesterday's Daily Mirror, his wife said: "I have been living my life as a lie, constantly looking over my shoulder. What have I done? I hate lying, I'm not a dishonest person. I really am so sorry."
She apologized to her sons, Mark and Anthony, after they said they felt they had been the victims of "a large scam."
"Who can blame them? How can they ever forgive me for what I've done?" she said.
Police had until noon yesterday to question John Darwin before they must apply to a court for a further extension, a Cleveland Police spokesman said.
British media said she sold her home and left Britain for Central America with ?450,000 (US$915,000) shortly before her husband's shock reappearance.
Earlier this week, the Mirror published a photo which apparently showed her with her "dead" husband in a Panama apartment last year.
During the day on Thursday the couple's sons, Anthony and Mark, who both left their jobs in recent months, issued a joint statement saying they were "astonished" that their mother could have let them believe their father had died. They said they had been the victims of a "large scam."
"If the papers' allegations of a confession from our mam are true then we very much feel that we have been the victims in a large scam. How could our mam continue to let us believe our dad had died when he was very much alive?" the statement said.
The leader of a South Korean church was arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of election influence as authorities widened an investigation into allegations that he illegally recruited thousands of followers into the People Power Party. The Shincheonji Church has denied the accusations against Lee Man-hee, 95, a self-proclaimed messenger of Jesus who founded the congregation in the 1980s. The church says it has about 200,000 members. Since January, a special team of prosecutors and police has been investigating alleged ties between religious groups such as Shincheonji and the Unification Church, and politicians. The inquiry is part of broader investigations under South Korea’s government into
Japanese airlines canceled more than 100 flights yesterday, as two tropical storms barrelled toward the archipelago, with authorities advising evacuations in some areas because of possible flooding and landslides. Severe tropical storm Mekkhala was downgraded from a typhoon, but still carried gusts of up to 144kph, forecasters said, with heavy rain already pounding parts of southern and western Japan. The weather system was expected to skirt the islands of Kyushu and Shikoku over the weekend and potentially converge with tropical storm Higos, which was also swirling further out in the Pacific. That could result in the atmospheric phenomenon known as the
EXTREME HEAT WARNING: Across Europe, farms have suffered and hospitals have struggled to cope amid the heat wave, while dozens of people have died in France Germany and Italy yesterday endured sweltering conditions as a heatwave linked to dozens of deaths in Western Europe spread eastward after temperatures broke records above 40°C. The UK, France, Switzerland and Germany have experienced record heat this month, and the weather system could test more records as it rolls across Germany toward Poland. Scientists said the heatwave would have been virtually impossible without man-made climate change, which has made this week’s temperatures 100 times more likely than they would have been even two decades ago. On Friday, a new German record of 41.3°C was reached near the city of Saarbruecken close to the
SEVASTOPOL BLACKOUT: Forces struck a railway bridge, a power plant and other infrastructure targets in Crimea as Kyiv seeks to turn the peninsula into ‘an island’ Ukrainian strikes on Crimea triggered power outages in its largest city, Sevastopol, both sides reported yesterday, as Kyiv intensifies its attempts to cut off the peninsula, which Moscow annexed in 2014. Crimea has been forced to suspend fuel sales to the public as Ukraine’s army targets Russian logistics to the region, and has hit a series of oil refineries and depots across southern Russia that provide supplies. Sevastopol Governor Mikhail Razvozhayev urged residents to help neighbors, and reserve phones for emergency communication to save battery and avoid overloading the grid. “The enemy is once again striking treacherously, attempting to deprive us of normal
RSS