Back-from-dead man's wife to pay $990,000 for fraud

LONDON: A British woman convicted of insurance fraud with her husband for faking his death in a canoe accident has offered to repay nearly 600,000 pounds (about $990,000), lawyers said yesterday.

The husband, John Darwin, is offering to pay back a nominal 1 pound of the money he received in the scam, which was revealed after he turned up at a London police station in 2007, five years after his disappearance.

John and Anne Darwin, now 58 and 57, were each jailed for over six years last July after details emerged of how they had planned a new life in Panama with the proceeds of insurance payout cash received following his "death".