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'Dead' British Canoeist Found On Google Image Search By Random Woman
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by Rob Walker | December 6, 2007 at 06:24 am
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This story just keeps getting stranger and stranger. Was this a plan, did something go wrong?
A single mother put police and journalists to shame in their attempts to unravel the mysterious reappearance of the canoeist John Darwin by using a simple Google search, it emerged today.The woman found the picture that apparently shows Darwin with his wife, Anne, in Panama City in July last year.
When confronted with the picture, which was printed in the Daily Mirror yesterday, Anne Darwin is reported to have admitted: "Yes that's him. My sons will never forgive me."
The photograph was available on a website of the firm Move to Panama.
It was found by the anonymous woman after she tapped in the words "John, Anne and Panama" into Google. She then forwarded the picture to both Cleveland police and the Mirror.
[q
url="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uklatest/story/0,,-7131636,00.html"]The
sons of back-from-the-dead canoeist John Darwin have spoken of their
"anger and confusion".
In a statement, Anthony and Mark Darwin said they feared they were
the victims of a "large scam" and said they wanted "no further contact"
with their parents.
They spoke out as police began to question former prison officer
John Darwin, who came back from the dead at the weekend five years
after he was feared missing at sea in his canoe.
His wife Anne is facing possible extradition from Panama after
admitting that her husband had been with her in the central American
country last year - a fact proved when a photograph of the couple
together was found on the internet.
Mrs Darwin is facing questions about why she claimed on her husband's life insurance.[/q]
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at 08:54 on December 6th, 2007
Ever more interesting, Rob Walker, and proof that you can find most things on the Internet. The Daily Telegraph is reporting that Anne Darwin is flying back to London today, where she'll be met by police.