OMG imagine your husband disappearing, presumed dead and he turns up again 5 years later

[wannaBe]

here

the bbc story does now say that he has no memory. that he just walked into a police station and said "I think I am a missing person".

Apparently he left with his two sons, so presumably if the wife has moved on his children are grown-up, so not as devostating as if the children had been tiny and had no recollection.

The other theory (insurance scam etc) would make for a good film/novel though .

Perhaps because the canoe was found in pieces the courts felt there was sufficient reason to believe him dead? Well you could see thatr eally, couldn't you?

There have been a few cases of poeple doing this in Mental Health cases iirc, although timing of his reappearance seems rather suspect for that.

Ah X-posted with wannabe

If thats true then, feel extreme sympathy for all invovled, what a horrid situation to be in - joyous for the kids no doubt (yet complicated) but for the wife/ man / her new partner

Sorry but I can't stop speculating (perhaps not busy enough)
How do you go missing in a canoe ffs?? Even if he did get smashed on the rocks and lose his memory, how far away could he actually have been from where he went missing? Presumeably if he did get found he would have been recognised by local services as missing iyswim? I mean he must have been a canoe-able distance from where he was last seen. I think it is a bit dodgy.

I guess really though it depends on how "recently" the wife left the country. after all, the media do have this way of reporting things in such a way as to make people think certain things, so recently could have been last week/last month/last year, and IMO that would make a difference to how suspicious it all is.

Very recently according to someone working on one of the houses - in the last 4-6 weeks...

Will look for report

But that is from Sky so they might have made it up!

OTOH a neighbour said:

outfits girls...

or this version?

Well is she sold 2 houses in Hartlepool that would not have raised a lot. Hartlepool is rather dire.

he had memory loss according to the [[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tees/7124519.stm bbc]

Harold bishop anyone?

bbc even

How long before she moans at him for not having done any washing-up for the last 5 years?

Wannabe, I believe that someone has to missing for 7 years before you can assume death, and then I think you can re-marry. There has to have been proper investigation too, of course.

Maybe he just wanted to get away from the wife...

True...UQD but that's a bit of a drastic way of doing it!!!

(waste of a damn fine canoe for starters! )

Once you've been gone a certain time you can have someone declared dead. I am not sure of the period. It was an issue with Lord Lucan. If she hasn't had that declaration then he is entitled to half the house proceeds.

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hmm, weirder and weirder.

nothing intelligent to add at this point but it makes jolly good reading [have come over all Enid Blyton lol]

It's Seaton Carew, not Hartlepool, and a house kind of like theirs is on for £255K (but it has sea views, dunno if theirs do)

Ahhhhhh, Seaton Carew. I can almost smell the chip fat.

'How man, where've you been bonny lad?'

'Ah divvent reet kna, marra. Hoy us that canoe, a'm gannin to flert doon to Panama to find wor lass'.

They're tweeing it up though, prob done away with the chip fat.