Thread 3: To feel disappointed after reading this in The Observer about the author and her husband from The Salt Path book and film?

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What about the poor housing allocation officer who allegedly wouldn't allocate housing because the Moth wasn't dying quick enough. Do they get an appology. Maybe the housing needs assessment revealed they could be adequately housed without needing public housing, or the complete snobbery around the embarrassing situation of having to live in a public funded house and having a go at the local community judging them when all the local community wanted is the debts to be paid. The option to use housing benefit support to rent privately. It's all rubbish with a serious undertone of snobbery and entitlement. Stealing off shops and local businesses was framed about how bad it made her feel. But stealing 64K didn't.
When you look at it rationally the sense of delusional entitlement in the book is breath taking.

Do all journalists live in London?

Seems unlikely.

I think some because of the loss of revenue, but from what I recall of the comments some didn't believe the allegations and were annoyed with the people asking for their money back.

One person who commented said the bookshop had lost their custom permanently because of how angry the owner was with them!

I don't have a link because I don't remember where, amongst all the discussions about this, I read the comments.

I see Chloe H was trying to track it down…Interesting.

I doubt they would have qualified for housing given they had a property in France?

I'm camping near Haye Farm soon. Maybe I should pop in!

Ask if you can borrow £64k

Who did Chloe H say she'd received a tip off from?

Could it be the people who own Haye Farm? They'd be close enough to see Timothy regularly and suspect he didn't have CBD.

Her parents married in 1954. And the dress wasn't a wedding dress per se, it was a powder blue suit I think (someone posted a newspaper clipping which described it).

The sense of entitlement when having to pay back a fraction of the money you've embezzled is gobsmacking.

Don’t forget when she repaid the £9k that’s all they thought she had stolen and it was only afterwards they found the rest

so her boo hooing when she knew she had done worse is pretty galling

Doubt she would identify the person(s) who gave the tip off. Journalists protect their sources.

Sorry, I meant she described them as someone the knew later, but I can't remember exactly how she described them.

I didn't mean she would say it was a particular person. I just wondered if the cider farm people matched her description of the source.

And who does own Haye Farm ? Anyone know ?

Fancy reacting like that when you've stolen money from people!

-Can we have our money back, please?
-I've had to sell things to give you this money back!

It's unhinged!!

I feel sorry for the independent bookshops - bestsellers can really make the difference to their income and they must factor that into their projections. Like all frauds the pool of victims is larger than it first seems.

I saw that the Folk on Foot have withdrawn their podcast featuring Raynor until matters have been clarified.

On a different note, did one of the other journalists at the Observer suggest there would be more to come?

When this broke Gigspinner said they'd do their Turnstone tour instead, but it seems venues are cancelling, which is a massive shame for them.

It's gutting the knock on effects the Walkers criminality is having, and I expect Sally will be moaning about how hard done by she is.

That's really rotten for the band, it's horrible how many people are paying the price for this

It's an investment banker, Billy Cole, who owns the farm, cider business and a rum distillery.

This is from Chloe H's Observer piece that I sort of missed on first read

"The following account of how the couple lost their home is based on interviews with eight people with direct knowledge of what happened."

That is a lot of people. I've counted Ros Hemmings/"James" the lender of £100K wife "Rebecca"/Michael Strain the Hemmings solicitor/the policeman who confirmed the report made about the missing money.

Wonder who the others are.

It’s so disgusting to me, all the people they have hurt and affected, while thinking how clever they were. Someone earlier was wondering how much money she will have made so far from the books, I saw this in a bookseller.com article published on Monday.

“Winn has sold just over 998,000 units for £9.5m through NielsenIQ BookScan’s TCM since first being published in 2018. The original mass-market paperback edition of The Salt Path sold the bulk of that – 561,000 copies for £4.97m – making it the 45th-bestselling non-fiction paperback since accurate records began, and the fourth-bestselling general autobiography in paperback of all-time.”

https://www.thebookseller.com/news/news/the-salt-path-author-raynor-winn-accused-of-stealing-64k-and-fabricating-claims

I’m going to drop off my copy at the charity shop today, it was already in the charity shop pile but this has all reminded me to get it out of the house.

It’s horrible how many PPs misspell Gigspanner.😀

That's really sad. They've done nothing wrong and they shouldn't have to suffer hardship here. Are the venues so sure that the audiences were coming because of TSP Winn/Walker connection? There must have been a fan base for Gigspanner too.

Edit for misspelling band name too. Apologies.

Good point

1. Ros Hemmings
2. Local police officer
3. Michael Strain, solicitor
4. 'Rebecca', wife of 'James'
5. Maxine Farrimond
6. The owner of the garage

Then there's former staff of Martin Hemmings, French officials, and villagers where they have their French property.

Re: CBD, named are

1. Prof Michele Hu (one of nine neurologists/researchers)

I never said it was the same. You're putting words into my mouth, or keyboard strokes into my fingers.