Wesley Hall claims ‘death threats’ against his daughter

It’s been some time since we last heard from Wesley Hall, who was apprehended in May as he attempted to board a flight to Spain, and hauled in for questioning by police. At that time he claimed that they were considering laying charges of perverting the course of justice, but before charges could be laid, he took off again for Spain.

By late June he was staying five hours’ drive out of Barcelona, where he had grandiose plans to “make the bottom drop out of the hemp market”. He’d incurred the wrath of the people who run Manchester’s Dark City Compassion Club by calling and claiming he was good friends with their founder, “Spanish Paul”; when he was found out, he had a bit of a melt-down and started threatening to kill all and sundry.

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He’s been relatively quiet since then. On the weekend, though, we noticed some odd goings-on: 

Yes, it seems that Wesley managed to con yet another unsuspecting person out of cash—enough to travel to Spain to look for land for a “cannabinoid retreat and farm” run strictly for the benefit of The People, you understand. Not Wesley himself, absolutely not. [Putting him in charge of a cannabis farm would be like buying a brewery for an alcoholic, no?—Ed.]

However, the doctor and/or his wife came to their senses had second thoughts—perhaps when they realised that Wesley had been in Spain for three months and no farm had materialised?—and, reading between the lines, have stopped sending him cash.

Wesley, needless to say, interprets this as “they set me up from the start, to isolate me in a strange country for nefarious purposes”.

Things get even weirder

Yesterday we saw that Wesley was making a rather extraordinary claim: he said he’d received several threats against his daughter by text overnight: (No, we didn’t know he had a daughter either.)

Then Wesley recorded a phone call between himself and the person he claimed had made the death threat. This was someone called Paul, who Wesley stated was Paul Earnshaw, a friend of the doctor who’d originally footed the bill for his trip to Spain:

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Here’s our transcript:

Paul: Hey you know who it is, come on

Wesley: Who?

P: You know it’s Paul, it’s me.

W: Paul who?

P: You know Paul who Wesley—stop being silly.

W: What’s your last name? What’s your last name?

P:Doesn’t matter, you know who I am.

W: I don’t know who you are.

P: Wes. It’s me you’re talking to.

W: Who?

P: Right. When you coming back from…

W: If you’re not going to identify yourself, then I’m not going to stay on this call.

P: [unint]

W: [talking over him] Do you think it’s normal…do you thinkit’s normal…do you think it’s normal to threaten children?

P: Do you think it’s normal what you’re doing?

W: What do you mean?

P: I’ve not threatened your children. Do you think it’s normal what you’re doing?

W: You sent a text message from this number that I’m speaking to—

P: Do you think it’s normal you doing what you are doing?

W: What exactly am I doing?

P: When you come back, when you come back to the UK, you’ll be arrested again.

W: What do you mean?

P: You’ll be arrested again when you come back to the UK, Wes.

W: What you on about?

P: Come back to the UK. Just come back.

W: You’re gonna get done for threatening my child.

P: No, I’m not. Listen. I’m not threatening no one.

W: Yes you have.

P: No I haven’t.

W: Well look at the text messages from this number I’m speaking you on.

P: Listen, Wes, Wes, I’ve threatened no one.

W: You won’t get away with this, Paul.

P: Wes, come to the UK. Come on, come back.

W: I’m in the UK. You won’t get away with this.

P: I will personally…

W: [talks over him] I’m in the UK, I’m in the UK…You won’t get away with this.

P: No you’re not in the UK, you’re not. You’re not in the UK, man.

W: You won’t get away with this.

P: Look, I hope you’ve enjoyed the sun, but you need to come home, because I think you’re going to be an illegal immigrant, aren’t you?

W: I think that you’re not going to get away with threatening a child, you sick, evil, twisted person.

P: I’m not threatening nobody!

W: [talking over him] So what are these messages then that you’ve sent in the middle of the night?

P: You know what it’s about.

W: What are these messages about?

P: You know what it’s about.

W: You threatened a child!

P: No I haven’t!

W: So what is this about then, Paul, tell me, because you’re talking in riddles!

P: [inaudible] where do you use…

W: What?

P: [Inaud]

W: What?

P: …no one…

W: I can’t hear you.

P: [inaud.]

W: Pardon?

P: Thank you for ringing, I’m very grateful for ringing when you’ve got a bit more, you know…

W: What are you talking about?! Are you on drugs?

P: I am mate, yeah, I’m on your farm!

W: What?

P: I’m on your farm.

W: What are you talking about?

P: Your farm.

W: What d’you mean, my farm?

P: Your growing farm.

W: What d’you mean, my growing farm?

P: I’m on it.

W: What d’you mean, you’re on it?

P: I’m buzzing, man.

W: Paul, you’re not going to get away with threatening my daughter.

P: Don’t you worry, I’m not threatening no one. Come back to the UK. COME BACK.

W: You sent a message, threatening my daughter.

P: Come back! I’m not threatening your daughter, come home.

W: Paul! You’re the coward who hasn’t even got the balls to tell me who you are.

P: I haven’t messaged you Wes. Come back to the UK. Just come back.

W: What d’you mean, come back? You’re not making any sense.

P: Come home, come home to Castle Street.

W: Why are you threatening my daughter? Why are you going round to Castle Street?

P: Listen, I’ve already phoned people this morning, I’ve not threatened no one, they fully understand.

W: What are you talking about?

P: Your ex-partners, don’t worry about it.

W: My ex-partners?

P: I need to go and have another joint.

W: What are you talking about?

P: I’m on your farm!

W: You’re not making any sense. You’re not going to get away with what you’re doing, Paul.

P: Well, come back to the UK, and I’ll give you a special cuddle.

W: You need psychological help.

P: Well I think you do, so we’ll go together. Come back to the UK and we’ll hand us selves in together.

W: If you threaten my daughter again, you’ll—you will face prison.

So now we have Paul claiming ignorance of the alleged death threats, but telling Wesley to come home and face criminal charges? We were starting to feel a bit lost.

Apparently we weren’t the only ones: 

And report to the police he did.

The answer is always ‘Hampstead trolls’

After the call to Paul, Wesley posted the following, which somehow managed to blame “Hampstead trolls” for his current difficulties:

Not only does Wesley manage to slip in an ugly allegation about Paul, but somehow the situation in which he has found himself is our fault?

At this point we were thoroughly confused. Had Paul really sent death threats about Wesley’s daughter? If so, why did he claim to know nothing about them? Why was Wesley speaking to Paul rather than to the doctor or his wife? And why is everything always the fault of “Hampstead trolls”?

A tiny glimmer of light…

Then we saw these screenshots, which apparently had been made over the weekend:

Hmm. Clare, it seems is Paul’s wife. And she is asking pointed questions about why Wesley is not answering his phone when David (the doctor, remember him?) calls. She also wants to know about Wesley’s previous business bankruptcy, no doubt a sensitive topic.

We wondered: if Wesley wasn’t answering calls from the doctor (who he claims had abandoned him to his fate in Spain), could one of the doctor’s friends have volunteered to call instead, in hopes that Wesley would pick up because he didn’t recognise the number?

It seems we weren’t far off the mark: Amjad says that Wesley has been “extorting” the doctor’s wife for money—strong words, which we cannot verify—but it seems we were correct that the doctor and his wife turned to their friends for help in dealing with Wesley, whom they had inexplicably trusted with the job of scouting out land in Spain for a cannabis farm.

We now strongly suspect that the “death threats” to Wesley’s daughter might have been a distraction tactic, to divert attention from Wesley’s activities and enable him to paint himself as the victim. This story seems to be unfolding as we speak so we’ll definitely be keeping an eye on it.