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Fraudster Anne Darwin has agreed to repay nearly £600,000 (€664,000) from the faked death scam she carried out with her husband, a court heard today.

The British couple conned financial institutions out of around £250,000 (€276,000) after John Darwin vanished in March 2002 while paddling his canoe in the North Sea near his home in Seaton Carew, Hartlepool.