Flip through the latest issue of Gulf Weekly.
It never ceases to amaze me how completely brainless some people can be!
You would think that if you wanted the world to believe you were dead, you would avoid posing for pictures four years after you were supposed to have died, wouldn't you?
Why go to the trouble of faking your death, allegedly defrauding a large sum of money and moving to the other side of the planet if you are then going to take a picture and advertise the fact that you're still alive?
If a memory is so important to you that you have to take a picture to immortalise it, the very least you would think to do is keep it to yourself, especially when modern technology now makes it possible to print up your own pictures in the privacy of your own home where no one but you need ever know of its existence.
To then walk along the beach near your family home and even show prospective buyers around that very same family house, completely beggars belief! Obviously, not quite dumb enough though, because it seems that John Darwin then felt the need to walk into a police station and pretend that he didn't have any recollection of the past five years and thought the police might be looking for him.
Did he honestly think that the men and women in blue (whose sole job it is to investigate crimes) would simply shake him by the hand and welcome him back to the land of the living?
His wife, Anne Darwin, claims that she was completely unaware that he was still alive until a year after his supposed death, when he just showed up on her front doorstep.
She then agreed to take him back and not tell their sons that he was still alive. What kind of woman does that? When you have invested years of your life into loving a man and raising his children, believed him to be dead and gone through the heartache and loneliness that goes along with the grieving process, how do you then forgive him for only 'pretending to be dead' because he'd rather not be around you then admit to being broke?
More to the point, how do you then agree not to tell your children that their father is, in fact, alive?
Little wonder then that their two sons have disowned them and that his 80-year-old aunt has quite rightly said of the situation: "It's beyond satire. You couldn't make it up."
Ain't that the truth!
