‘It was our biggest mistake to trust Renore Winn’

A family that claims that Salt Path writer Renor Vinn stole thousands of pounds from his business, saying that it was his “biggest mistake” to trust him.

Gwynedd in GwynedD accuses Ros Hemeings and his daughter Debbie, Ms. Vinen from PWLLHELI – who worked for his property business in the early 2000s – stolen around £ 64,000.

It comes after a check Reviewer In the vested claims, Ms. Vinen gave misleading information about her life story in her book The Salt Path, which has been made in the film starring Gilian Anderson and Jason ISAC.

Ms. Vinen has called the Observer Report “highly misleading” and has disputed many of its claims.

The 2018 book The Salt Path, and its recent film conversion, tells the story of a couple, who decides to walk on the 630-mile southwest coast path after resumption of their home after a bad trade deal in their home.

But Observer claimed Ms. Vinn – whose legal name is Sally Walker – and her husband, Moth Vinn lost her home, when she accused her previous employer, Martin Hemings of stealing.

In a statement released earlier in July, Ms. Winn stood from the details of the book as to how he came to lose her home, stating that the dispute with Hemings did not resulting as a result of her and her husband losing her house.

Martin Hemings, who died in 2012, was an estate agent and property surveyor and husband of husband Hemeings from North Wales.

74 -year -old Mrs. Hemings became friends with Mr. Vinen, when she worked on the same National Trust Site in the 1990s.

“I met him very well,” said Mrs. Hemings. “He looked a very good person.”

Then in 2001, Mr. Vinen mentioned that his wife lost her job as a accountant in a hotel.

“It coincides with my husband’s retirement retiring, so I suggested her to my husband,” said Mrs. Hemings.

“She came for an interview, and she was one. She looked very skilled, we loved her.”

But she said that after that her husband saw a change in business.

“Within a year we were not earning any money,” said Mrs. Hemings.

Initially he had nothing to doubt.

“I did not feel that there was any reason to be different from the fact that Martin was nonsense to send the bill,” said Mrs. Hemings.

But his daughter Debbie, who was at the age of about 29 at the time, became emotional, as she remembered receiving a distressed call from her father as financial pressure over the years.

“He said: ‘I don’t know what has gone wrong, I am working every hour, God gives me and no money,” Debbie Adams said, now at the age of 46.

“After that about five days, the first call he rises up and goes, he [Winn] Money is coming out. I was so, ‘Dad comes now, no. Surely something wrong is done? ‘He said’ No, we have a look and the money is missing. ,

He claimed that a meeting between Mr. Hemings and the bank manager showed £ 6,000 to £ 9,000. He said that Mr. Hemings went directly to the police and a local lawyer.

He said that shortly after, Ms. Vinen visited her at her house.

“She was crying,” said Mrs. Hemeings. “He had brought a check. I think it was for £ 9,000. He said that all this is with me, I have to sell some of my mother’s things to do so, can we call it quits?”

Mrs Hemeings said that her husband took money on the advice of the police, who said: “You can find all this.”

But he also advised that the couple started going back through accounts whether something else was missing.

He said that he went back to years of business financial paperwork.

“It was a very disturbing thing and it took us weeks and weeks,” Smt Hemeings said. “But we found that he had taken about 64,000 pounds.”

Mrs Hemeings said a few weeks later she received a letter from a Solicitor in London, offering to pay the money back and legal fees, which was about 90,000 pounds.

It included an agreement to not pursue criminal allegations that were signed by Mr. Hemeings.

Mrs Hemeings said: “He was keen to do so in a way, we had no money and almost basically insolvency. She also had young children, and had a mother in jail or faced a criminal charge, he did not want to do so.”

A statement issued in July after the Observer Article, which included Mrs. Hemeings’ allegations, accepted the first “mistakes” in her career.

He said it was a pressure time, and although he was questioned by the police, he was not accused.

“Whatever mistakes I made during the years in that office, I regret deeply, and I really regret it,” she said.

Ms. Vinen said that the matter was decided on a “non-admission base” between her and her former-judge, as she did not have the necessary evidence to support “what happened”.

He said: “Mr. Hemings was eager to reach a personal resolution as I was.”

BBC Wales gave Ms. Vinen’s statement to Mrs. Hemings.

She replied: “I think she is just trying to put the best spin on the question.

“The mistake was that we ever employed him, and my husband made the biggest mistake, because obviously I recommended him in a way, that was that he trusted him.”

Salt Path has sold over two million copies since its publication, and Ms. Vinn has written two sequels, The Wild Silence and Landline, which also focuses on the topics of nature, wild camp, homeless and walking.

Mrs. Hemings said that she did not read the salt path because she did not think it would reflect her attitude as to why the couple walk.

He said: “I think the book is stamped. Just to shine on why he had run out of money for me was shocking.”

His daughter Debbie said: “I don’t want him to be sick. I just want to tell the truth, and the truth needs to be told.”

In her statement in July, Ms. Vinen said: “The path of salt is about what happened to me and me, when we lost our house and found ourselves homeless on the headlands of the southwest.

“It is not about every event or moment in our life, but about a capsule of time when our life went from the place of hope to hope.”

Ross and Debbie stated that they had no paperwork or contract on time to support their claims – although others, such as their lawyer involved in the case, Michael Strain confirmed their claims as part of the supervisor’s investigation.

Mrs Hemeings said that she was now speaking to give a “voice” to her late husband.

“I could not forgive her to destroy her husband’s confidence in people, because it did,” she said.

“And I think we didn’t partially talk about it. He was so embarrassed that it happened for his business.”

North Wales Police said they were unable to confirm or deny any details about Ms. Vinen.

When contacted for the comment, Ms. Vinn’s spokesperson said in a statement given to BBC News on 9 July.

He said: “He is very grateful for all kinds of messages of support received from readers.”

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