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

[wannaBe]

here

maybe he gave himself up to protect his interests.

maybe he became aware that the police were on to him. Someone else must have known after all - you don't just disappear into nowhere without a trace, so maybe the police had been asking questions and someone informed him that the police knew he was still alive.

So he comes back to this country, before he can be traced to Panama, goes into a police station and plays the amnesia card. And hopefully the police will let him go and in time, when the dust and media interest settle, he can disappear back to Panama where wifey, and bank account full of insurance money are waiting. Except he didn't bank on journalists tracking the photo of him and the wife together.

Yes, apparently the police have been investigating for the last 3 months so maybe he thought he would pre-empt them. I can't decide whether they decided that together or he did it without her knowing.

It's the dad I feel sorry for

panama nice

the sons have issued a statement disowning both parents
from Sky news

Poor sons....a shock when they thought he'd died now they must feel like they've lost him all over again AND their mum too.

(and discovered they were a pair of shysters into the bargain)

It's poor old Grandad I feel most sorry for, hope the shock doesn't kill him.

The Evening Standard is now saying that he handed himself in as revenge after she left him.

think I'd disown my parents too if they did that.

It's bizarre if the sons didn't know. How were the couple going to live undetected? Was she never going to have contact with them again?
Say they turned up in Panama for a surprise visit?

Being financial advisors they could have put them up to it

Case was cracked by a single mum sleuth

PMSL when I read this - all those who are scathing about MN amateur deectives!

Great!! Who could play her? Fern Britton?
Judi Finnigan?

OMG that only gives amunition to those who were googling on certain other threads recently .

PMSL!!

MN Sleuths.com!!

so how much life insurance did he have? because they said the houses were sold for about £450000 or there abouts, and tbh that's an awful lot of scam for the sake of half a million quid.

oooo just read

"Mrs Darwin said: "I have no reason to think he would have left and stage-managed this."

from one of the initial reports from 2002 when he "vanished" - she said that 6 months after he "drowned"!!! Hmm - isn't that a rather odd thing to say when your DH is presumed dead???

re the life insurance - I bet it was a pretty big sum, and given his age he probably had at least one pension that paid a lump sum on his death, if not more (if my Dad died now he'd be worth a fortune just based on the number of pensions he's paid into over the years LOL).

how shameful
sad for sons and his own father

Indeed diva.

Ice Queen my DH & I often joke he's worth more to me dead than alive. If he keels over off duty I have to stuff him into his uniform & claim he was about to go to work as I'd get more for death in service!

(sorry Nurse &police bad combination for sick SOH)

bossy - I know what you mean - DH is worth much more dead than alive - his insurance being a lot more than simply the mortgage value.

lol. I would not let him wear anything other than his uniform then, bossy. just in case.

Yeeeesssss except he'll get ideas that I'm getting ideas IYSWIM

Bless him just cos I used to think he was gorgeous & sexy in his uniform he thinks he still is! sigh

so apparently the wife has left Panama. And the assumption is that she'll be arriving in the UK iminently, except no-one knows when or where from.

now am I the only one that thinks maybe she's just left panama and will be off to ... well ... somewhere that praps doesn't have an extridition treaty with Britain? .

Gawd knows with this family- apparently one of the sons has done a flit too?!

hmmm think if I was one of the kids I would want to disappear too esp away from the media spotlight.

I was thinking that perhaps the wife wouldn't have left Panama for the UK too.......