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UK Cops Charge Boater With Fraud

Back-from-dead Darwin hid in family home, using secret passage

By Kevin Spak,  Newser Staff

Posted Dec 8, 2007 4:53 PM CST

(Newser) – UK cops today charged John Darwin, the 57-year-old former teacher who allegedly faked his death in a 2002 canoeing incident, with two counts of fraud—acquiring a money transfer by fraud and lying to get a passport—the  BBC reports. Darwin will remain in custody...   Read full story »

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