The true scale of the arrogance and deceit of canoe couple John and Anne Darwin was exposed last night.
Thinking they were beyond the law, the callous couple tried to trick police, insurance companies and, most cruelly, their own sons into believing Mr Darwin had drowned in the North Sea.
As they started jail terms totalling more than 12 years, damning documents emerged to prove how carefully coordinated the five-year deception had been.
Shock and oar says the Sun
the judge slammed their “cruelty” towards their two sons, who believed their dad was dead.
In fact, he had plotted a new life in Panama using £250,000 in insurance and pensions payouts.
Ann Darwin had it continues,
denied nine charges of money-laundering and six of deception. But jurors at Teesside Crown Court took just four hours to find her guilty of all offences.
They decided she’d told a pack of lies — and had been in on the six-year charade from day one
I'm off to Panama says the Mirror's front page.
Anne Darwin will return to Panama once she is freed from jail - to a million-dollar nest-egg.But now police face a battle to get hold of cash, property and other assets worth $1million that Anne stashed away in Panama after she and John, 57, fled to the Central American country to secretly set up a new life.
The broadsheets have the Darwin's on their front page but lead with different stories,The Times reports that
Parents to be punished for children’s net piracy
Parents whose children download music and films illegally will be blacklisted and have their internet access curbed under government reforms to fight online piracy.
Households that ignore warnings will be subjected to online surveillance and their internet speeds will be reduced, making it very difficult for them to download large files.
The measures, the first of their kind in the world, will be announced today by Baroness Vadera, who brokered the deal between internet service providers and Ofcom, the telecoms body.
The Independent has the same story saying that
Internet users could face an annual charge of up to £30 to download music, under plans to be unveiled today that aim to tackle illegal file-sharing
John Hutton, the Business Secretary, and Andy Burnham, the Culture Secretary, will unveil a package of proposals, beginning with thousands of prolific downloaders receiving letters warning them they are breaking the law by copying music and sending it to friends. The Government sees that move as the last chance for internet service providers (ISPs) to get a grip on the growing problem of piracy.
Britain tries to block green energy laws claims the Guardian
Documents obtained by the Guardian show the UK wants to block attempts to give renewable electricity sources such as wind farms priority access to the national grid. The European official who drafted the legislation accused Britain of "obstructing" EU efforts on renewables and said UK officials wanted to protect traditional energy suppliers and their coal, gas and nuclear power stations
The Telegraph leads with politics claiming that
David Cameron is to launch the biggest shake-up of the Conservative Party for decades as part of a bold plan to win support across the whole of the United Kingdom.
The Tories are to forge a new party with the Ulster Unionists to try to secure broader backing for Mr Cameron before the next election.
The move to restore a link severed more than 30 years ago forms a central plank in a new Conservative strategy to broaden the party's appeal outside England.
The Independent reports that Brown faces by-election earthquake,
The SNP insisted that it was still on course to deliver a "political earthquake" in one of Labour's safest seats and humiliate Gordon Brown by snatching victory in today's Glasgow East by-election.
But the fiery rhetoric from the nationalists' leader, Alex Salmond, sounded increasingly hollow as the Government appeared likely to hold on to the seat, albeit with a much reduced majority.
The papers continue to report on the capture of Radovan Karadzic's
Radovan Karadzic's secret life says the Telegraph
For the genocide suspect turned “Spiritual Explorer” it was a secret life, but not an empty life. On the run from the globe’s intelligence agencies he still had time for trysts with a lover, as well as frequent visits to The Madhouse, a bar in the drab New Belgrade district of the Serb capital where Karadzic lived at the time of his arrest on Monday evening.
Drinkers at the bar, a gathering place for nostalgic nationalists, still consider Karadzic and his military commander Ratko Mladic heroes, and to prove it two large photos of the men hang from the bar’s walls.
The Guardian takes a closer look at the Madhouse
In retrospect, it is hardly surprising it was his favourite pub. The walls and bar of the Luda Kuca (the name means madhouse) are adorned with the Serb pantheon - Slobodan Milosevic, Vojislav Seselj, Ratko Mladic and of course, Radovan Karadzic - each one a nationalist hero. For the hardline clientele, the fact that they also shared the distinction of having been charged by The Hague war crimes tribunal only enhanced their status as warriors
As Barack Obama heads for Europe,the Independent reports that he
repeatedly promised Israel's leaders yesterday that its security would remain "paramount" while he promoted efforts to resolve their conflict with the Palestinians early in his first term if elected.
The Democratic nominee went out of his way to reassure Israelis and Jewish voters in the US that an Obama presidency would even strengthen "the historic and special relationship" between the two countries – "one that cannot be broken".
The Times reports that Obama heckled as he visits Western Wall
Orthodox men interrupted their morning prayers to catch a glimpse of the Illinois senator, reaching out to shake his hand as he passed them by. But not all were taken by the Democrat. One yelled out: “Obama, Jerusalem is not for sale!” before Mr Obama was whisked away to his waiting plane
The Guardian reports that Rising food prices pushing east Africa to disaster
More than 14 million people in the east Africa region require urgent food aid due to drought and spiralling cereal and fuel prices, aid agencies say.
In an emergency appeal launched today, Oxfam warns that millions of people in Ethiopia, Somalia, Uganda, Djibouti and Kenya are fast being pushed "towards severe hunger and destitution". Earlier this week the UN said it needed £200m to avert a humanitarian disaster
The 2012 Olympics feature in a couple of the papers,the Independent reports that they will favour rich athletes, warn MPs
The Government's plans for the London 2012 Olympics risk favouring middle-class, privileged young athletes over poorer ones and will do little to boost grassroots participation in sport, a spending watchdog claims.
The aim of UK Sport, the state-sponsored development body, to come fourth in the medal table could distract the Department for Culture, Media, and Sport from its core obligations to "ordinary people", warns a report today from the all-party Commons Public Accounts Committee.
Olympic athletes still waiting for business to donate to Brown's £100m training fund reports the Guardian
Britain's hopes of a best-ever Olympic medal haul at London 2012 have been jeopardised after efforts to raise £100m from the private sector to train elite athletes have come to nothing.
MPs on the Commons public accounts committee will confirm today that Gordon Brown's initiative to persuade companies to help Britain reach a target of fourth place in the medal table has foundered.
Mortgage approvals sink to record low says the Mail
The soaring cancellation rate - when buyers put in an offer but then back out - illustrates the dire state of the property market.
In a monthly report, the Bank said: 'In the market for established homes, more transactions were falling through, with some estate agents reporting a cancellation rate of up to 40 per cent recently.
The downturn has brought some good news though
Horray for the British holiday says the Express
Holidays in Britain are making a comeback as thousands of struggling families shun their usual expensive breaks abroad this summer.
The credit crunch and the pound’s nosedive against the euro are behind Britons’ renewed enthusiasm for holidays at home.
The trend is great news for UK resorts, with bookings already up by as much as 63 per cent in some seaside towns, while camp site and holiday park reservations have risen by 10 per cent.
Children will die younger than their parents, minister warns says the Telegraph
Alan Johnson, the Health Secretary, raised the alarming prospect of life expectancy falling for the first time in many hundreds of years unless youngsters began to eat healthier diets.
He said that rather than being "lectured and hectored", parents needed to be told the stark message that a young child who was overweight before their teens could see their lifespan cut short by as much as 11 years
The Independent says that Mosley 'was set up by Formula One enemies'
Max Mosley, whose role in a sado-masochistic sex orgy was exposed in a Sunday newspaper, was the victim of a sting operation by his enemies in the world of motorsport, senior figures in the industry have told The Independent. The claim is that Mr Mosley's enemies wanted him ousted quickly from his position as unpaid head of the sport's regulatory body, the FIA.
Batman bust up over cash claims the Sun
BATMAN actor Christian Bale flipped during a slanging match with his mother and sister after they told him a sob story, it was revealed last night..
Legal sources told The Sun the women said sister Sharon needed £100,000 to help her bring up her three children
The Times reports that Authors unite against drive for toddler literacy
A powerful lobby of leading authors and educationists accuse the Government today of setting children up for failure.
In a letter to The Times they say that ambitious education targets – including using punctuation before a child turns 5 – are unrealistic and risk harming pre-school children by setting back their development.
The Mirror reports on the
Hero Marine who smothered grenade with his own body gets George Cross
Lance Corporal Matthew Croucher, 24, from Solihull, Birmingham, told how he was certain he was going to die when he triggered the device on a mission in Afghanistan.
But he said: "The least I could do was try to save my mates - I felt guilty."
Speaking after military chief Sir Jock Stirrup described him as a "most extraordinary" hero, L/Cpl Croucher said he would "definitely" do it again.
The hazards of summer in the Independent which reports that
Mediterranean on alert as hundreds suffer from stings
As thousands of tourists head to the Mediterranean, the spectre of jellyfish ruining holidays looms large after French emergency services received more than 500 calls for help in a single day along a 10-mile stretch of coast from Nice to Cannes.
Paddlers suffered painful stings and wanted something to treat the pain while swimmers reported that they had found themselves totally surrounded by a species commonly known as the mauve stinger
Many of the papers are reported the approaching heatwave in the Uk
The sun may have his hat on today and is likely to wear it till Friday, but forecasters warned last night of low temperatures and rain - just in time for the weekend.says the Mail
It's a phenomenon known in meteorologists' jargon as Sod's Law.
Millions going to work until Friday are expected to bask in some of the hottest temperatures of the year, with thermometers reaching 27c (80.6f) today and 28c (82.4f) tomorrow in London, with other regions not far behind.
Finally the Times reports on
How a £1 billion drug deal sank in Irish Sea
The operation to land £1 billion of cocaine was going like clockwork: the catamaran had glided into position in the Irish Sea and the cargo was being ferried ashore to a remote location, ready for distribution across Britain.
Months of planning suddenly went awry, however, because of the simplest of blunders — somebody put diesel in a petrol engine. The mistake caused an inflatable boat to capsize, tipping dozens of bales of cocaine into the choppy waters and casting one of the drug dealers into the sea.
When the emergency services were alerted, police found 61 suspicious packages floating around the upturned boat in Dunlough Bay, west Cork.
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