Back from the dead canoeist's sons refuse to visit parents in prison

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Mark and Anthony Darwin publicly disowned the pair after learning of their alleged fraud over their father's disappearance in an apparent sea tragedy in 2002.

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Family breakdown: Anthony and Mark Darwin have publicly disowned their parents and are refusing to visit them in jail

Anne Darwin, 55, last week pleaded with her sons to forgive her and visit her in prison.

But Shelley Tilley, the mother of Anthony Darwin's wife Louise, said neither had been to visit them in Hartlepool jail.

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Anne pleaded with her sons last week to forgive her and visit her in prison

"I don't think it is going to happen for a while," she said.

John Darwin, 57, is charged with dishonestly obtaining £25,000.

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Caught out: The picture that pinned John Darwin in Panama with his wife last year, when he claimed to be missing

His wife is accused of dishonestly obtaining a £25,000 life-insurance payment and a policy worth £137,000.