Positives #28 Exposed UPDATED

I can't bear grifters: people who pretend to be poor, people who pretend to have cancer, people who lie about fundraising, all people who lie in order to profit from the sympathy/ goodwill of others.

The latest to be uncovered are 'Raynor and Moth Winn'. They of The Salt Path books and film.

When the first book came out and they were doing the rounds on TV I felt that things just didn't add up; just like I did with a cook who allegedly was so poor that she removed the light bulbs in her house. I've been poor, both as a child and an adult, and her stories didn't ring true right from the start.

Then recently I saw 'Raynor' promoting the film adaptation of The Salt Path alongside Jason Isaacs, who plays 'Moth'.  At one point during the interview, Isaacs angrily said, 'You can't say it, but I can. You were conned,' when speaking about how the 'Winns' supposedly lost their house.

Thanks to a piece of investigative journalism by Chloe Hadjimatheou of The Observer, it seems that his angry words are very far away from the truth of the matter.

Grifters. 

May they continue to be exposed.

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Raynor Winn has issued a statement and medical letters regarding her husband's illness.

Points of interest.. 

• She says that the 'friend' with whom they allegedly had the business deal that went bad, told them that he couldn't repay them their £100,000 investment as he didn't have the money. However, he could lend it to them through his company at an interest rate of 18%  and have the loan secured on their house. Why would you risk your house in order to recoup an investment from years earlier that hadn't paid out?
• The walk on which The Salt Path is based took place in 2013... the walk that she states they undertook because of the loss of their home which was followed a few days later by a terminal diagnosis for Moth Winn. However, the medical letters issued by Raynor Winn show that it was in 2015 that CBD/CBS was suggested as a possible cause of Moth Winn's longstanding neurological symptoms. It was not a firm diagnosis, as he had what the neurologist has described as an atypical and mild presentation. This is a very different scenario to the supposed terminal diagnosis two years earlier in 2013.
• They tried to 'raffle' their house to clear the debt, stating it had no charges/ mortgage on it. This was untrue, as it still had a large mortgage, and the £100,000 charge on it. In short it was not theirs to raffle.