The wife of back-from-the-dead canoeist John Darwin has offered to return more than half a million pounds of fraudulently obtained cash.
Lawyers for Anne Darwin said she would pay back £591,838 she made from the scam she staged with her husband John, a Proceeds of Crime hearing heard.
The pair of Seaton Carew, Teesside, were jailed after he faked his death to claim life insurance and pension cash.
John Dawin agreed to pay a nominal sum of £1, as he has no financial assets.
A proceeds of crime hearing to confiscate some of the money started at Leeds Crown Court earlier.
Convinced sons
Mrs Darwin, who appeared in court, agreed to pay £363,700.01 compensation to the victims of the crime and £228,138.24 under the terms of the Proceeds of Crime Act.
Her husband was not at court.
The couple had convinced the police, a coroner, financial institutions and even their two sons that John Darwin had drowned while canoeing in the North Sea in 2002.
However, he had been hidden away in a flat next door to his wife’s home, and they later embarked on a new life in Panama.
In November 2007 he returned to the UK, telling police he was a missing person with amnesia.
Darwin, 58, was jailed in July 2008 for six years for deception, while 57-year-old Anne Darwin was jailed for six-and-a-half-years for fraud and money-laundering.
In March, they both lost appeals against their sentences.
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