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| Missing canoeist admits deception | Missing canoeist admits deception |
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| Canoeist John Darwin, who walked into a police station five years after being presumed dead, has admitted seven charges of obtaining cash by deception. | Canoeist John Darwin, who walked into a police station five years after being presumed dead, has admitted seven charges of obtaining cash by deception. |
| He also admitted a passport offence but denied nine charges of using criminal property at Leeds Crown Court. | |
| His wife Anne, 55, denied six deception charges and nine of using criminal property and will face trial in July. | |
| Mr Darwin, 57, vanished after his canoe was found in the sea close to his home at Seaton Carew, Hartlepool, in 2002. | |
| He will not face trial for the charges he denied, which will be left to lie on file, prosecutors said. | He will not face trial for the charges he denied, which will be left to lie on file, prosecutors said. |
| Airport arrest | |
| When John Darwin vanished, a huge air-sea search failed to find any trace of his body, and he was pronounced dead by police and a coroner the following year. | |
| Mrs Darwin subsequently sold the family home and moved to Panama. | |
| She was arrested at Manchester Airport when she flew back to England following her husband's reappearance. | |
| The couple's sons Mark, 32, and Anthony, 29, are not being treated as suspects and are "innocent victims", said detectives. | |
| Mrs Darwin will stand trial at Teesside Crown Court on 14 July. |