It was one of many electronic messages that the couple exchanged while playing out the con including a saucy one in which fugitive Darwin told his wife how much he loved her.

In her email, dated November 30, 2007, and sent from Panama, she wrote: "Hope you had a good flight and everything is okay with the family.

"Did you manage to write the last chapter for your book on the way there?

"Love you, missing you already XXXXXX"

The email was sent just hours after John Darwin left Panama to return to the UK, and around a month after Anne Darwin had emigrated.

The jury at Teesside Crown Court was shown a number of emails sent by Anne Darwin to her husband.

In one, sent on October 10, 2007, she signs off: "I miss you so much XXXXX."

In an email sent on October 6, she tells her husband: "Love you XXX."
The jury was also read the contents of a saucy email John Darwin sent from Panama to his wife back home in Seaton Carew, Hartlepool.

Dated August 28, 2007, and sent from a Yahoo account in the name of John Jones - the identity Darwin assumed after faking his death - he tells his wife about some banking arrangements in Central America.

He then signs off the email with: "Love you lots. Get your bum over here fast. I got something here for you and it's hot."

The jury was told that Cleveland Police detectives accessed John Darwin's john_jones_1850@yahoo.co.uk account and found a total of 1,012 emails, of which 923 were unread.

The court heard that police rules mean that officers could not open any unopened emails and so looked at the contents of just 89 messages.