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London: The sons of a British man who faked his own death cannot forgive their parents for making them believe their father drowned in a canoeing accident, two newspapers reported on Sunday.
In interviews in the Sunday Mirror and The Mail on Sunday, Mark and Anthony Darwin described how their anguish and heartbreak turned to anger and hate as they realised they were lied to for years. "They have tarnished all the good times that came before. I can't ever forgive them for putting us through the torture of mourning," Andrew was quoted as saying. "They were in it together and they deserve the sentences handed down by the judge. They're as bad as each other."
John and Anne Darwin were jailed for more than six years on Wednesday after a court found them guilty of staging John's disappearance in 2002 in a plot to clear their debts by collecting on his insurance and pension.
John resurfaced at a London police station in 2007 claiming amnesia, but his story unraveled when it became clear he had been in contact with his wife and that the couple had been trying to set up a new life in Latin America. Mark described rushing to his family home when he found out his father was missing to find his mother "sobbing uncontrollably" and struggling to breathe as helicopters combed the nearby coast looking for her husband.
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