The mother of all cons...

[Bemorebeth]

Apologies if there is another thread on this. Couldn't see one.

Thoughts?

I’ve just started it now

Watching it now - Nick is bloody marvellous!

I've just watched all 3 episodes - absolutely riveting! One twist after another, infuriating and heartbreaking at the same time.

I’m just starting ep3. Bloody hell to all of it so far! Looking forward to (is that the right expression? I don’t think so) discussing it when everyone has watched it all.

Binged it last night. Holy hell!

Watched all of it last night...wasn't intending to but completely hooked and had to see how it ended. Shocking...I had no idea.

Just watched this! Absolutely shocking that poor girl !

@Bemorebeth have you watched all of it yet?

Astonishing programme. Nick is my new hero. Not just for the investigation that he did, but for his incredible emotional insight and honesty about how bereavement had left him feeling. The void, the anger ("ready for a fight", any fight), a willingness to recognise that he too was caught up in a kind of ugliness (the online sleuthing).

All of those things spoke so truthfully to the messiness of grief and I wanted to hug him. Especially when he said, with so much emotion, that the moment of his child's death wasn't the worst moment. There was a long period after he said that during which he was too tearful to finish speaking, and I was aching to hear how he would complete this statement, because I lost my son too and the moment of his death wasn't the worst.

In fact, when he did finish his statement, it didn't especially speak to my own experience, but that didn't matter. Everyone's grief is different. What mattered was his emotional insight and frankness, which helped me (and I'm sure many other viewers) to feel not alone in some of our uncomfortable and disorienting reactions to bereavement.

As for Meg, that poor girl.

Yes, I binged it too. It was just so shocking. So many people wrapped up in this huge web.

It was truly shocking and even that doesn’t seem a strong enough word! Still do many unanswered questions - why has the mum not been charged with anything? Either to do with Meg, or the fraudulent prescriptions (at Harrods!) or the charity?

Thank god Nick and the woman (her name escapes me) didn’t relent and just kept digging.

Poor Meg - she didn’t stand a chance with a mum like that.

Yes - I can’t believe how many people (doctors, nurses etc) were fooled

Couldn't agree more, so eloquently put.

I was stunned at the flight to America! That little plane flying so low over the Atlantic 😱

Perfectly put. Losing a child must be the worst kind of grief and I cannot imagine it. The closest I came was 6mc which is incomparable. Losing my mum was life changing for me, in a similar way, losing my second parent left me lost and bereft and with no purpose or focus in life or so it felt.

Incredibly gripping and sad, I didn't realise how awful it was going to get. Nick and Joanna were amazing in their persistence, especially after the awful experiences they've had. Heartbreaking as well for everyone else involved.

Shameful that the pilots and other passenger were duped into a journey on which they could easily have died. But the mother decided not to make that journey... too dangerous for her perhaps?

I actually think it was quite odd that the pilot and owners of the plane agreed to do it in the first place in very dangerous conditions - there is being charitable and there is being downright dangerous and idiotic and this seemed the latter to me. The whole documentary was bonkers but this was one of the strangest bits for me

Totally agree. It was really weird. Surely there's a point at which you draw the line. It was crazy the pilot thought Meg was 10 also. I felt embarrassed for him - too trusting to believe his own eyes.

That bit floored me too. They risked their own lives for her. So utterly terrifying.
And his surprise at her age, thinking she was around 12/13 at the oldest only to discover she was 20.
Also her male friend who felt so adamant that she was genuinely suffering from the brain tumour, he was so conflicted and I really felt for him along with everyone else who was duped.
There were a few unexplained things though, I admit I may have nodded off! The trustees of the charity were herself (Jean) and some of her older children, had she forged signatures etc to set that up? Her older daughter didn’t really mention about that side of things.
Probably some other things too, I appreciate they can’t fit years worth of info into 3 hours.
I found it really compelling viewing, I was flabbergasted that she was trying to source the medicine from the wholesalers or whoever provided it to Harrods and I had no idea Harrods had its own pharmacy!

Yes I agree! It was a crazy idea to do that. The pilot thought Meg was about 12 - obviously he saw her in person but from the photo of them together no way she looked 12! And then all this about clearance to land wherever they wanted etc. So so bizarre.

I wonder what Meg truly thought was going on? Especially being at Disneyland for 5 months.

Where is Jean now and why has she got away with it all? Where is Meg’s father? Step father?

Did the morphine cause the fatty liver? Is it really easy to get all those invasive tests in hospital? So many questions.

Exactly all this - I came away with so many more questions! Mum had fled to France and nobody could find her then suddenly she was back in the country.

And Harrods’ having a pharmacy? 🤣 If someone had written this as a work of fiction they would have been laughed out of the room.

The only plus side was that some poorly children genuinely benefitted from the charity.

Name change as don't want other posts linked.

Nick is a friend of mine son-in-law, and his son, Adam is my friend's grandmother.

In tears listening to him talking about Adam.

Awww ❤️ what a man he is to go through all that without knowing what the outcome would be. I hope he is doing as ok as he can.

I understand he and his wife are.

Nick is involved with charities that supported them when Adam was ill.