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One News: Jonathan Clynch reports that John Darwin, who reappeared five years after it was thought he had drowned, has been arrested on suspicion of fraud
Police in England have arrested a canoeist who turned up alive more than five years after he was feared drowned.
John Darwin, a 57-year-old from Hartlepool, walked into a London police station on Saturday.
Mr Darwin had disappeared after paddling out to sea in his canoe in Seaton Carew, near Hartlepool.
No body was recovered but, the following year, an inquest was held into his 'death'.
His wife Anne yesterday told reporters she had believed her husband was dead and claimed, in good faith, on his life insurance.
She moved to Panama City six weeks ago after selling the couple's home in Seaton Crew but said she hopes to fly back to Britain to see her husband.
