Salt Path Scandal

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Wake up babes, the new Hannah Ingram-Moore just dropped. :disco:

Context: A middle class couple claim to have lost everything due to a 'bad investment', the husband is diagnosed with a terminal illness, they wind up homeless and embark on a 630 mile walk along England's southern coastline. The husband's health miraculously improves, the wife writes an inspirational best-selling novel about it, which was recently adapted into a hit film starring Jason Isaacs and Gillian Anderson.

Except it has now emerged that it's all LIES, they had a whole other house in France the entire time, and they're a pair of CROOKS who ripped off virtually everybody they came into contact with.

observer.co.uk

The real Salt Path: how a blockbuster book and film were ...

Penniless and homeless, the Winns found fame and fortune with the story of their 630-mile walk to salvation. We can reveal that the truth behind it is very different
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I love shit like this.
 
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One of my friends asked me to go see it with her but I declined. She spent the next week telling me how wonderful it was and how awful it was that I missed out on something so life affirming.

I'll enjoy filling her in on this :)
 
this is beyond juicy. I hope they lose everything and keep piling on the lies about his terminal diagnosis and the healing powers of walking :disco:
 
It's clearly this woman :disco:

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Watching Raynor and Moth Winn’s meteoric rise to fame and the national adulation they have garnered, Hemmings feels frustrated, but she has no idea where to go or who to speak with to put the record straight.

Instead she says her daughter would often try to tip people off about them anonymously. “When she found any of the books in charity shops, she would write a little homily in the front about what Sally’s really like.”
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At least the husband can fake his death to escape the shame AND wriggle out of being accused of lying about a terminal diagnosis for attention.
 
I’m sure they’ll go on another long walk to resolve all this and produce another bestselling book.
 
This, of course, is the lead story on this week’s The Rest Is Entertainment.
 
More scammery exposed. Some poor (rich) sap is moved by their story and lets them rent out his cider farm at minimal rent, despite promising to run it for him, they apparently do no work whatsoever and let it fall into ruin. When called on it, they claim the husband is CLOSE TO DEATH, then do a midnight flit. :D

observer.co.uk

‘I felt I was being gaslit’ – the landlord who helped Ray...

Moved by the plight of the Winns, Bill Cole rented his cider farm in Cornwall to them at a knockdown rent. But they left him feeling confused and betrayed
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But in October 2021, Bill says, Moth surprised him with an announcement. “He put his head in his hands and he said: ‘We went to the hospital this week and I’ve been told not to plan beyond Christmas.’” Bill was horrified. “I just went: ‘Oh my God!’ and gave him a big hug.”

Bill’s friend Richard, who asked us not to use his surname, was present for the conversation. “It was extraordinarily emotional,” he recalls. “Bill was close to tears. Moth also told him he thought he would already be dead if he hadn’t been living on Haye farm.”

Richard remembers that Bill had become close to Raynor and Moth, messaging them most days. Richard says he was concerned for his friend, however, because the farm was losing money. Cider was not being produced and the orchards were not being attended to.

“But he didn’t care,” says Richard. “He felt kind of responsible for them, and for Moth’s wellbeing.”
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When Winn’s third book, Landlines, was published in September 2022, Bill read how, in the winter of 2021, soon after Moth had finished another long walk, a neurologist told him his brain scan was “normal”, implying that the walk had drastically improved the symptoms of his condition.

The timing in the book seemed to indicate that this was happening at around the same time as Bill recalls being told that Moth was dying.

“I was reading it on a train,” Bill recalls, “and I just went: ‘What the hell?’ It just makes no sense whatsoever.”
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Not long after, Raynor and Moth terminated their tenancy at Haye farm, a year earlier than agreed. When Bill went to the farm to see them off, they were already gone.
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we were due an update on this saga. and it didn't disappoint :disco: love that Bill just did not care that his cider farm had fully stopped producing cider...
 
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The fact that all their victims appear to have been gullible rich people (i.e. TORIES) really does make this the perfect guilt free entertainment. :disco:
 
I also love that this Observer journo has clearly dedicated a huge chunk of her career to destroying their lives and reputations.

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I’m waiting for the final reveal that she’s the vengeful daughter who turned every copy of their novel she could get her hands on into a burn book. :disco:
 
I am always a bit cynical when instantly people like this have been subject to “threats”. Really? I know a lot of people are unhinged, but it just always seem to be a go-to claim to get sympathy.

Anyway, I’m now more interested in their time at this apple/cider farm.
 
Mrs Hemmings is not having it! :YesIHaveDone:

BBC Wales put Ms Winn's statement to Mrs Hemmings.

She responded: "I think she's just trying to put the best spin on the question.

"The mistake was that we ever employed her, and the biggest mistake my husband made, because obviously I'd recommended her in a way, was that he trusted her."

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Mrs Hemmings said she had not read The Salt Path because she did not feel it would reflect her view on why the couple did the walk.

She added: "I'd have stamped on the book I think. Just to gloss over why they ran out of money to me was shocking."
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www.bbc.co.uk

The Salt Path: 'Trusting Raynor Winn was our biggest mistake' - BBC News

A family who claim The Salt Path author stole thousands from their business say trusting her was a big mistake.
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I'm delving into the house lottery (illegal) and the claim that all players were reimbursed (highly unlikely).
 
“We found ourselves sitting in a dismal bar overlooking a concrete walkway where children dodged waves as they broke over the sea wall.” Early in The Salt Path, Winn describes the couple attending a pub quiz in Westward Ho!, a small village on the north Devon coast.

Rob Braddick, the owner of the Fairway Buoy, the only pub fitting Winn’s description, says the pub has never hosted any kind of pub quiz.
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