The couple recently moved out of Manila and into a new home 30 minutes away. Mrs Darwin now works as a volunteer and lives in a village near York. The loss of Charles Darwin's beloved daughter was softened only by the addition of Horace Darwin, who was born only three weeks after Anne's death on 13 May 1851. PANAMA PLANS. Anne Darwin, 56, says she wishes now that her husband had really died. Darwin was released from jail in 2011 but broke his parole two years later travelling to Ukraine to meet Anna Avramenko, 25, who he had met on a website for foreign brides. Boom. Darwin hit headlines in 2007 when it was discovered he was still alive after he had been reported ‘lost at sea’ by his first wife Anne, 69, in an insurance scam. Annie's Box Around 2000, Charles Darwin's great-great-grandson Randal Keynes discovered a box containing keepsakes of Anne collected by Charles and Emma. Darwin's ex-wife Anne was jailed for helping hubby John fake his death in the scam. After Darwin’s release from jail in 2011, the former maths teacher turned prison officer set about finding a new, younger lover. Making money,” Mercy May said. Anne Darwin hid John Darwin in their Teesside home for several years, after he pretended to go missing on a canoe trip in the North Sea in 2002. Anne fled to Panama with John after he vanished near Seaton Carew, Durham, in 2002. A regular visitor from 1849, Darwin made the two-day journey to Malvern to partake of the town’s popular water therapy, hoping it might relieve the chronic vomiting and headaches that plagued him for much of his life (and caused some now think by Chagas’s disease 1 contracted on his Beagle voyage to South America). Darwin turned up alive in December 2007, five years after he was believed to have died in a canoeing accident.. Darwin was arrested and charged with fraud. His wife, Anne, was also arrested and charged for helping Darwin to collect … ANNE Darwin was convicted of six counts of fraud and nine of money laundering. I’ve had it for three years now. John had planned a new life for the couple in Panama, using £250,000 in insurance and pension pay outs. The John Darwin disappearance case was an investigation into the faked death of the British former teacher and prison officer John Darwin. Darwin’s ex-wife Anne was jailed for helping hubby John fake his death in the scam. “I have a new business. Darwin's first wife, Anne, reported him missing after he went canoeing near their home in Seaton Carew, Cleavland, back in 2002. She claimed £679,000 in pensions and insurance payouts and the pair bought and moved to a property in Panama. At her trial at Teesside Crown Court, Mrs Darwin's case was that her … Darwin was sent behind bars for six years and Anne six-and-a-half years following the scam. Anne fled to Panama with John after he vanished near Seaton Carew, Durham, in 2002.