LONDON - Anne Darwin, wife of the canoeist who "returned from the dead" five years after going missing, appeared in court on Tuesday charged with two counts of deception.

She was remanded in custody until December 14 at Hartlepool Magistrates Court, Cleveland police said.

Darwin, 55, was charged with dishonestly obtaining 25,000 pounds by money transfer and dishonestly obtaining 137,000 pounds by money transfer.

Her husband John Darwin, 57, had appeared at the same court on Monday, charged with obtaining money by deception and making a false declaration to get a passport.

He walked into a London police station last week claiming amnesia after apparently drowning at sea in a canoeing accident five years ago, sparking days of international media coverage.

Anne Darwin's solicitor Nicola Finnerty said her client was cooperating with police but was very tired and tearful and was concerned about her family.

"She wants to say to her family that she's very sorry for any upset and distress that she may have caused," Finnerty told reporters. "If her sons want to get in contact with her she really wants to see them."

The couple's sons said last week they wanted no further contact with their parents after their mother told newspapers a photo of her and her husband taken together in Panama last year was genuine.

Detective Superintendent Tony Hutchinson has said the Darwins' sons were not suspects in the case.

Police on Monday issued a photo of Darwin with a straggly beard and appealed for information from anyone who might have known him under the name John Jones.

Officers arrested his wife on Sunday following her return from Panama, where she had recently moved.

Anne Darwin had reported her husband missing in 2002 when he failed to return home after canoeing in the North Sea near their home in Hartlepool.

A few weeks later the shattered remains of his red kayak were discovered. A coroner declared Darwin dead in 2003 after a police inquiry.