LONDON - Police have arrested a British man who walked into a London police station to declare he was still alive, five years after he was presumed drowned in a canoeing accident, Britain's Sky News reported today.
John Darwin, 57, was arrested at his son's home in Britain,the report said.
Darwin's disappearance has long baffled those who participated in the search for him after he took his red canoe for a paddle in the North Sea near his home in Seaton Carew, Hartlepool, at 9am on March 21, 2002.
Rescuers involved in the search described sea conditions that day as "smooth as a millpond".
British police are waiting to talk to his wife, Anne Darwin, who recently moved to Panama after recently selling properties she and her husband had once owned and claiming a life insurance payout.
She's told the British press she claimed the life insurance in good faith, and that she understands she may have to return the money.
