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Darwins guilty of canoe fraud

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yorkshirepudding · 23/07/2008 16:24

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DrNortherner · 23/07/2008 16:30

Canoe fraud is when you pretend to be a canoe but you are not really

Bundle · 23/07/2008 16:31

what, like a dinghy?

lulumama · 23/07/2008 16:32

like there was going to be any other verdict

i read something in the paper that their debts were £300 000 and the money from life insruance was £250 000, so what was the point... it was not even like they could go off and live the life of riley ....

totally bizarre

their children must be absolutely distraught

lulumama · 23/07/2008 16:32

more like a kayak i would thikn...

bundle · 23/07/2008 16:42

really?

what about a coracle, getting ideas above its station?

lulumama · 23/07/2008 16:44

ooh, you know your boats, doncha!?

bundle · 23/07/2008 16:45

unlike Mrs Darwin....

lulumama · 23/07/2008 16:46

it is quite sad though isn't it ? depsite the humourous undertones..

DeeRiguer · 23/07/2008 16:50

katermaranic for thekids i agree lulu
the barnacles wont disappear overnight thats for sure

bundle · 23/07/2008 16:51

v sad

the judge agreed, the real victims in this case are their sons

kiskidee · 23/07/2008 16:51

they weren't intending to pay debts off with the insurance though, were they. they were planning a new life in Panama.

I feel sorry for them in one sense. Small town people trying it on and they got the book thrown at them.

How many times have the avg grunts been screwed over by those with money and access to power and expensive solicitors and gotten away with it.

lulumama · 23/07/2008 16:54

how could you rebuild your relationship with your parents, when they blatantly have shown that money means more to them than their own children?

lulumama · 23/07/2008 16:56

they did not make a mistake though, kiskidee, they plotted and planned and lied constantly for a number of years. they dissembled and let their children grieve for a 'dead' father, it is reprehensible IMO. surely bankrupcy or an IVA would have been a more sensible optin?

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yorkshirepudding · 23/07/2008 16:56

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bundle · 23/07/2008 16:57

do they have to give the money back?

bundle · 23/07/2008 16:58

"Anne Darwin kept him hidden inside the house for about four years"

4 YEARS

lulumama · 23/07/2008 17:17

yes, according to that article they have to pay it back.

bundle · 23/07/2008 17:18
lulumama · 23/07/2008 17:19

ha ! busted! too busy looking up different light water crafts!

bundle · 23/07/2008 17:21

snort
am a skimmer (when it comes to reading and boats )

kiskidee · 23/07/2008 17:45

oh I agree lulu. what they did was wrong and I would hate to be their poor kids. I am just speaking of the disparity of how ordinary stiffs can get treated by the law to how more 'connected' people get away with more elaborate swindling of working people's pensions for example.

wannaBe · 23/07/2008 17:49

what I find unbelieveable though is that they did it for 250 grand. the average house these days is only worth just a bit less than that.

250 grand isn't a lot of money, certainly not a life changing amount of money, so to deceive to that level is just shocking IMO.

lulumama · 23/07/2008 17:50

yes, that is also true kiskidee.

DarrellRivers · 23/07/2008 17:55

It got me to thinking how much money would make it worth while?
Losing your sons-there would never be enough money to make this feasible.......

wannaBe · 23/07/2008 17:59

I don't think you could put a price on it.

If my parents did this I would have to question how much I really meant to them in the first place, if they were prepared to deceive me to that level for the sake of 250 grand.