Apparently died five years ago after his canoe was washed up at Seaton, his family accepted his death et al. No turns up in a London Police station. Bet there lass has something to say.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uklatest/stor ... 82,00.html

Yeah, just seen that on the BBC website. Strange old scenario that one.

weird

He hasn't been in China has he

Not to my knowledge although he could have sneaked in .......

Never got his round in like, must be a Dibble relation.

whats a "round"

just like Harold Bishop

They've just had a piece on the news from Seaton where the fellers wife lived. Apparently she's sold the house in the last couple of weeks......barrel of last weeks fish there like!

The woman who was doing the report was stood on the prom in front of The Green, must say she looked........er windswept.

Bit smelly....

Game on Ken...

Never heard that before like.

Does anybody think he's been abducted by aliens?

Or will we find out if she got cashed up from a life insurance policy before going to a country with which we don't have an extradition treaty just before he turns up?

Awww bollocks, I never thought of doing that.......

Worked with John for years. A strange bloke indeed.
Funnily enough when he dissapeared there wasn't one colleague at work who thought he'd drowned, all to a man said he'd done a runner.
Have chuckled a lot today at what the hell could have happened, as I said a strange strange bloke

Was he in your current line of work then Mr B??

I just heard on the BBC 6 o clock news that he went missing just off seaton carew and had turned up 450 miles away in London.

Is that Seaton Carew in fookin Dundee, daft tvvatz!

Next best thing!

some reports say they had two houses
one on the cliff at seaton
she declared herself a widow six months after he went
sold the houses six weeks ago and shipped out to either panama or jamaica depends which report you read
then he turns up again
whats the bet you can't reclaim insurance from jamaica
i reckon that smell of fish drove him out of the attic

Indeed kev !!!

Hmmmm.......maybe a bit of insider advice???

Have you been a naughty boy?

Howcome everyone suspects skullduggery here ?
The guy was a prison officer & spent his working life in the company of badly done to innocent men.
No way would he have been party to any iffy schemes or plans in there would he.

Even the Yanks have got in on the act - CNN no less:

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/12/03/missing.canoeist/index.html

"Seaton Carew, Hartlepool in northern England"

the more this story unfolds then im sure you will be seeing him inside again soon Mr Bresslaw a very dodgy fella indeed he should be locked up for life its despicable whats gone on here.

Eh?

All he's done is got some some cash out of a multi million pound insurance company!

But why did he go and hand himself in. Why didn't he just sit beside the pool and enjoy the sun. Did she run off with a Panamanian milkman or something.

Faked his own death? So only his wifes to blame for claiming his life insurance

And how will the insurance company make up the loss, go on have a guess

Yes that's right, by passing the cost back to you and me

Lock him and his wife up for a nice long stretch

I'm not condoning what he did, but locking him up for life is a bit strong!!! His crime is to have defrauded the insurance company. If they caught everyone who's ever done that and locked them up they'd need to build a few more prisons!

Who mentioned life?

Fraud is fraud, how much did they claim?

A fair wack I bet!

Added to the fact, the man hours the OB are now having to put in, the fact they both let their kids think that their dad was dead, make the both tossers of the highest order in my eyes!

Bloody yakkers eh!

wot if one of the rescue workers died trying to look for him ?
lock them up and make them pay for the rescue cost

Aww is der poor ickle policemen having to earn their pay??? Time the idle bastards did summat instead of sitting behind a desk spending all my tax drinking on their force credit cards.

FORGET THE POLICE
LIFE BOAT MEN WHO DO IT FOR NOTHING FOOL

Again, laughing boy, I don't disagree with your sentiments, however the fact that the police HAVE to investigate such an half arsed crime, along with the rescue services, these 2 bounders should be chucked in the for a good stretch

You pay income tax in Red China then Kev?, Gordon Brown does reach far and wide

Of course I do. Not actually income tax, but tax on everything I still do in the UK. Added to which they had a fair wedge out of me over the years anyway.

But they didn't did they?? Are you an advocate of these 'what if' crimes like??

Don't get me wrong, I think it's utterly pathetic that the RNLI has to be paid for by donations and I salute each and every one of them.

at the end of the day kev i could not give a toot bout them ripping insurance off
just as said above we foot the bills ie bigger insurance premiums rescue cost exc to me them 2 should foot the bill

Well two things:

First off we 'don't actually know too much yet, apart from everypne thought he'dd rowned and he hasn't. Secondly where would you stop with that?? What about daft cliff divers and fisherman, people who take a sunbed out to sea??

come on kev
its difrent if people do not intend to put other lives at risk ie fishing sunbathing
but if someone trys to rip of insurance by faking a sea accident then hey m8 thats delibrate
putting rescue workers life at risk for they own gain

I miss people who do the sunbed in the sea thing, along with people who jump in the brine after their dogs
They drown, the dog jumps out and toddles off..

But why did these people do it? They had two houses in Seaton that they've sold for so much money that they can now afford to live off the proceeds for the rest of their lives in Panama.
Why not just do that in the first place if that was what they wanted?

Apparently, alledgedly, one of the sons has now done a runner.

The bloke appeared at Hartlepool magistrates earlier this morning

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Good ole white collar crime, it's good innit?!!!

Well, I know they did it for money but there must be a point where you have more money that you know what to do with???
Not that I would know anything about that

She probably just wanted him out of the way for a bit. Men do tend to get under your feet. Chrissie knows what I mean, don't you, Chrissie?

It also goes to show just how daft woman are
I mean, why did she come back, he got nicked first, she should of stayed put, he'll be out in three years and they could meet up once again

What is??