I read that interview, I thought it was horrific and was amazed so many people were commenting on what a nice lad he was because if you read it and think about it that young man slips up several times and reveals just how badly he, his brothers and his mother treated Richard.
He says when Richard first tried to discuss it with them they wrote him off as a liar trying to get money out of their Mum. Their Mum knew he had told them he probably wasn’t their father and that they didn’t believe him and accused him of trying to get money out of her. She knew it was true and she knew she had been defrauding him out of money for years and she didn’t say a word.
They accused him of fiddling the DNA tests and refused to believe him saying it was a con. She knew it wasn’t. She didn’t say a word. They refused to believe what he was telling them and called him a manipulative liar when it was true and their mother was the one who had lied to them for years.
He praises his mother for using the money she defrauded to buy him and his brothers properties.
He says that his mother did it deliberately because she was in an unhappy marriage and wanted children and had guessed her husband was infertile. But he also says she thought Richard was genuinely the father and both can’t be true. I think she knew she was having someone else’s children but didn’t want to tell Richard because he was their meal ticket. Given they look so much like Richard and she has twins, my feeling is that she had fertility treatment with donor sperm and selected a donor with a similar appearance to Richard.
I think this is why she is also reluctant to discuss the father. If she had done that and this was a deliberate subterfuge she will have committed multiple criminal offences. No wonder her children are so vocal about not wanting to know who their real Dad is.
I also think that the mothers relationship with her new partner conveniently splitting up is probably a ruse to protect assests and stop them being seized to repay Richard.
The overwhelming impression I got from the interview is that they support their mother’s dishonesty because they are aware it has financially benefitted them.
I think it he’s prepared to go to the newspapers and make insinuations about claiming his Dad might have made this up to get money out of his Mum, when they know it isn’t true, means they’re pretty morally bankrupt. The interview is so full of contradictions and inconsistencies he’s obviously being dishonest to some extent.
Someone made a comment on the other thread that the apple doesn’t fall from the tree and I think they are right. The mother has financially defrauded this man and extorted money she wasn’t entitled to. The boys seem to have very little to say about that and are, instead, just content to sit back and enjoy the rewards their financial exploitation of Richard has created.
No wonder they like their Mum when she’s gone to such lengths to line her son’s pockets.