John Darwin Appears Like Kate Moss
WHEN the Mirror spotted John Darwin’s ghost stood beside his wife Anne in the offices of a Panama estate agency the paper added a new folder to its photojournalism legacy.
It was the Mirror that brought us pictures of Cocaine Kate Moss, looking on as the model arranged “a fat line of cocaine”.
It has yet to proven whether Moss was using drugs or chopping some other substance. The Mirror was bold. But mistakes can be made.
In 2004, the Mirror was a victim of “a calculated and malicious hoax” (its words) when it published faked photographs of British soldiers supposedly torturing Iraqi prisoners - in one picture a soldier was seen urinating on a hooded man while in another the hooded man is being hit with a rifle in the groin.
How would the Mirror view Anne Darwin’s holiday snaps? Was it John Darwin beside his wife, a lookalike, a ghost or a fake?
The answer is quick in coming. And in “MY LIES”, Anne Darwin tells the world: “I have been living my life as a lie, constantly looking over my shoulder.”
We too have looked over Anne’s shoulder, and seen her dead husband. He’s called John Jones, at least that’s the name on the passport he used after he ‘died’ in 2002.
“What sort of mother am I?” asks Anne Darwin. Sons Mark and Anthony have disowned her, “publicly”, says the Mail’s front page. “Who can blame them?” Anne Darwin asks. “I lied to them, my own sons. They’re totally innocent. They knew nothing. They thought their father was dead.”
And the plot: “Well, it as John’s decision but I went along with it.” He had been living in Panama and waiting for his wife to join him there.
Elsewhere, amid five pages of coverage, the Mirror tells of the “RIDDLE OF BROTHERS IN HIDING”. Mark Darwin is said to have cleared his London flat, made a “hurried” visit to his brother’s home and left “coded directions to his girlfriend to get to an airport”.
“Sons’ anguish as one of them does a ‘moonlit flit’,” says the Mail.
Meanwhile, the Express has news of what is says is John Darwin. He’s in the back of a car on his way to Redcar police station. Only, we cannot be sure it’s him. “The man at the centre of the mystery and the paper at the centre of unravelling it,” says the Express. “His head is secreted beneath a copy of the Daily Express,” says the Daily Express.
But is it him? Or is it John Darwin? John Jones? Kate Moss? Lord Lucan? The possibilities are endless…
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December 7th, 2007 at 11:56 pm
Sorry Bernard, but Mam is just the word for Mum in the North East of England!
For example, a typical exchange between two youths might be;
“Seeya after doon the beck wiyer pin?” (Shall we meet later for a spot of fishing?)
“Me Mam woownt lettus gan wii’ya doon t’beck fer a bitta feshin meend, shee’s reet meetherin’ onnat us noo anda canna do reet at haahm - ah ’spectister hoooormoons an ‘al, b’t shalla seeyertermorrer doon the ginnel fer a faag?…”
(My mother won’t let me go with you down to the stream for a bit of fishing, she’s seems to be nagging me rather a lot at the moment and I find I am unable to do anything right at home - I have a suspicion it might be her hormones; but shall I try to meet you in the alley for a smoke?”
That’s just the way we talk. It’s nowt mooer sinister than that, canny lad!
December 7th, 2007 at 11:51 pm
So, one of the son’s has taken off. Where to, oh yes, Panama. The other son will soon follow probably. They will lose everything by the sounds of it. They must have to pay back the authorities for the full-scale search though. Bet Mr Darwin’s not got amnesia now!
December 7th, 2007 at 10:48 pm
I noticed yesterday that the sons call their mother ‘Mam’. Although Americans use the word “mom”, most people in this country prefer “mum.” My point is why this unusual spelling? I’m wondering if it is a kind of pre-arranged code message to her, telling her not to come back.
I say this because yesterday she said she was returning, then she saw the message from her sons and now there is no sign of her. Someone tipped her off that the police were waiting for her? I think it might have been her sons.
It would be interesting to ask people who know the family whether the boys normally addressed her in this way. I suspect not.
But we shouldn’t speculate about matters we know little. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone. There could be an innocent explanation for what has happened. Let’s hope so.
December 7th, 2007 at 9:16 pm
the darwin’s kept their secret for five years. i wonder how long the mccann’s can hold out!
December 7th, 2007 at 9:11 pm
I love this story… I’m desperate to know the truth which really is stranger than fiction.
Next>>>>> THE FILM! wish I could afford to option it!
December 7th, 2007 at 9:09 pm
So, there may have been a sighting of him fishing in Cornwall 18 months ago.
Doesn’t surprise me, we get allsorts.
Funny bugger, he.
December 7th, 2007 at 8:43 pm
Sons knew nothing about the deception?
Bollocks!
I don’t believe it!
December 7th, 2007 at 8:24 pm
Ah yes, a falling out with the wife would explain a lot.
Got his revenge didn’t he.
December 7th, 2007 at 7:56 pm
Dairy - you’re back…
People lose the thrill
December 7th, 2007 at 4:21 pm
i have read the police have a theory that he had an arguement with his wife and they seperated…and because evything was in her name he was left with nothing so he reappeared as revenge..I think the whole thing is actually brilliant though..he got away with it for over 5 years and was in panama the whole time living it up..my hats off to him apart from the part where he was thick enough to pose for a photograph with his wife..
had this gone completely to plan and they lived happily ever after..it would have been great..its hilarious..was a damn good try..altho in his situation i would have accepted the fact that i would never pose for a photo again..but still next person to try it will learn from their mistakes..
December 7th, 2007 at 4:21 pm
I read today that there is a possibility that he had been dumped by his wife and that going back to the UK and turning up with “amnesia” was a way of dumping her in it with regard to the financial fraud…? she seems very adamant that the sons were not involved (and so do they of course), but when she went to Panama, was she seriously thinking about not seeing them again (unless she went back to the UK)? a visit by them to Panama (had they really known nothing about it) would immediately have blown everything wide open. I think there is more on this to come out yet…
December 7th, 2007 at 2:50 pm
I was thinking, I do sometimes. Just what kind of idiot is this Darwin fellow?
He seemed to have got away with it, then he turns up in England claiming to have amnesia.
Without the resultant publicity he would probably still be living quietly in Panama, so why all this? Did he really think no one would piece this together?
I’m amazed!
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Possibly he wanted his bus pass and £200 heating allowance….
December 7th, 2007 at 12:31 pm
Lucan run but Lucan’t hide?
December 7th, 2007 at 10:53 am
Shergar?