John Darwin’s shameful affairs, 23-year age gap wife and foreign brides’ website
21.04.2022 - 00:55
/ dailyrecord.co.uk
While Anne Darwin was entirely devoted to her husband, John Darwin was a narcissistic cheater.
Anne deposited her then-husband’s £250,000 life insurance policy after cashing it because he faked his own death back in 2002 by pretending he had died while paddling out to sea in his canoe.
For years the couple used their ill-gotten money to travel around the world in a bid to start a new life, eventually buying a £200,000 tropical estate in a village in Panama in May 2007.
However, John sensationally returned to the UK claiming he had amnesia after a change in the visa laws, then an incriminating image emerged of the pair in an estate agents in Panama.
During their court case in 2008, the picture of their happy marriage was destroyed when Anne revealed her husband had previously cheated on her.
But the 71-year-old was also trying to start affairs with other women while he was pretending to be dead, report Mirror Online.
Darwin admitting he’d had an affair just after they married and being caught having another when their son Anthony was 15-years-old.
“I was angry, heartbroken. The last thing I wanted was to tear the family apart,” said Anne. “We agreed to make a fresh start, where we’d both make more of an effort and try to make things work.
“I wasn’t sure if I’d ever be able to trust him again.”
During the trial, Anne told the jury she had no sexual relations with anyone before they were married and none with anyone else since.
But she confessed she considered leaving John after he cheated on her, saying: “I was quite obviously upset when I found out about the relationship.
“I did consider leaving him, but I just couldn’t see a life without him. I didn’t know how I would cope on my own so I forgave him.”
After she forgave