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Darwin claims husband sent e-mails in her name
ANNE Darwin told today how her husband - back-from-the-dead canoeist John Darwin - sent e-mails in her name discussing bikinis and women's underwear.
The former doctors receptionist was explaining to a jury at Teesside Crown Court how her dead husband wrote e-mails for her to send to him, their sons and friends back in the UK from the Panama.
In the e-mail Mrs Darwin writes of doing the housework in her bikini and going shopping in the local high street - noting how cheaply priced the women's underwear was.
Mrs Darwin, 56, who is a practising Catholic and regular churchgoer, describes how she had gone to a church in Panama and met a friendly priest - although she struggled with conversation because she did not speak Spanish.
Andrew Robertson QC, prosecuting, asked the defendant that if she was telling the truth yesterday when giving evidence to the jury that her husband never went to church - why would he describe a conversation in Panama with a priest?
"You are not only a person who lies well, but you do it cleverly. Do you realise how damning parts of these e-mails are?," he asked Mrs Darwin.
"So you have to say that John wrote it now because you realise you were sunk. Why on earth was he sending e-mails to himself?
"You're just lying, lying and lying."
Recalling Mrs Darwin's evidence that her husband was good at maths and she was better at English, Mr Robertson noted: "It is a very fluent e-mail beautifully written."
Reading Mrs Darwin's e-mail to the jury, he said: "I walked down the main shopping street. It goes for about two miles.
"It has everything for such low prices, knickers from 10p and jeans for a pound."
The prosecutor then asked Mrs Darwin: "Why is John interested in buying knickers?"
She immediately replied: "That's the sort of person John was."
5:38pm Friday 18th July 2008
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