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Article: Darwin reveals all from inside his jail cell
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 18, 2009
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Canoeist convicted of fraud after faking his death concocts plan
to sidestep prison rules and get his memoirs published
THE STORY of how John Darwin faked his own death gripped the
world. His unlikely tale of pretending to drown in a canoe accident,
using the money to fund a life of luxury in Panama, and then
returning to Britain claiming to have amnesia had the makings of a
good book.
That, it appears, was not lost on the man himself. Yesterday it
emerged Darwin, who was convicted of fraud and sentenced to six
years in prison in July 2008, intends to publish his story and is
writing his memoirs from his jail cell.
He has apparently already written the first 33,000 words and has
managed to ...