Outrage as canoe man John Darwin’s new Filipina wife says she ‘can’t wait to move’ to UK as she mocks ‘free benefits, housing, school and doctors’
CANOE fraudster John Darwin’s new wife has made fun of the UK’s “free” benefits culture.
In a post to her Google Plus account, Mercy May, 43, shared a smiley thumbs-up snap of herself posing with a fake British passport and revealed she “can’t wait” to move here.
She described the UK as the land of “free benefits, housing, school and doctors” in the caption.
The Filipina married conman Darwin, 66 — who became famous after faking his own death for an insurance payout — in February last year.
The full post to her Google Plus account read: “Yes! Got it! Who said I was banned! UK, land of the free, free benefits, housing, school and doctors, can't wait to move with all the family lol.”
May is a mum of three kids between eight and 23 years of age.
Over a decade ago in 2002, the ex-prison officer faked his own death by paddling out to sea in a canoe at Seaton Carew, near Hartlepool.
He ditched the small boat to make it seem like he drowned.
They bought a number of properties in Panama, which served as the fraudster’s home base.
But when the country’s visa laws changed in 2007, he tried to return to the UK under the guise of having amnesia.
This failed, and both Darwin and ex-wife Anne were convicted of fraud in 2008.
Darwin was handed a sentence of six years and three months, while his wife was put away for six years and six months.
Conman John Darwin pretended he had amnesia when he arrived back in the UK in 2007
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