2011 my ex moved back to Morecambe, near to where my daughter lives.

In August 2011 Amanda started an art blog and in 2012 joined an American website, Daily Paintworks, to advertise her art. She received, from both artists and collectors, very complimentary feedback. July 2012 a collector in Washington DC, Melissa Ferring, sent Amanda an email saying how much she loved her art and bought a few paintings.

It wasn’t until early 2017 that we found out that my ex had used the identity of a lady living in Morecambe, Ros Patterson, to pose as an artist, doing the same genre as Amanda. I deduced my ex was using the name Ros Patterson from her handwriting which was on an artwork online.

This is definitely my ex’s handwriting, even if Ros Patterson had allowed her name to be used, it is still my ex’s handwriting. When we discovered this information it made a lot of things fall into place. I had mentioned to my daughter in July 2012 that Melissa Ferring had sent Amanda an email saying how much she loved her art and that she had bought a few paintings. My daughter will have no doubt passed this information on to her mother. In November 2012 my ex created an account on painters online UK using the name Ros Patterson which enabled her to contact via the ’email the artist’ button, the artists on Daily Paintworks.

April 2013 Melissa Ferring bought her last painting from Amanda, but continued to keep in touch by email posing as a friend. This was the same month my daughter stopped talking to us altogether. The reason she was avoiding communication was because it was my Grandson Tom’s 21st in October 2013 and our attendance would have fuelled her mother’s bitterness and could have ruined the party. On Boxing Day 2000 Mark told us that “Joanne and I are dreading Tom’s 21st because my Mum is like a dog with a bone and will not let go”. At the time Tom’s 21st was 13 years away. He also told us that when he had told his mother on the phone that he was taking his son Alex to see “Grandad and Granny Amanda” she went ballistic and shouted down the phone “She is not the Grandma!”.

Two weeks after Tom’s 21st he rang us to thank us for the cheque and card we had sent him. He told us that he loved us and that he was about to leave home to go and live with friends in a flat in the centre of Morecambe. Again, I asked to speak to my daughter and he said she was out.

Boxing Day 2013 my daughter emailed saying she was sorry but with no explanation as to why she had ignored us for virtually two years. We knew the reason was due to her mother’s influence and in our reply we told her that we were very hurt and that we needed an explanation as to why she had not spoken to us for such a long time. Previously in 2011 I had warned my daughter not to let her mother destroy our good relationship, unfortunately to no avail. We never received a reply, so, a couple of days later we texted her asking if she wanted to talk, to which she replied “I am at work” and we never heard another thing.

We believe from April 2013 onwards my ex befriended Diane Hoeptner, an artist on Daily Paintworks, her husband Mike Hoeptner (Mike Miller), who we believe is a member of an organised crime network and Melissa Ferring who is also a friend of Diane Hoeptner. We believe my ex told these people various defamatory statements about Amanda. These include that Amanda has prevented me from seeing my Grandchildren (who are now 27 and 21 years old), has been unfaithful and has given me Hepatitis B, which is totally untrue and we have medical records to prove it, and has told certain individuals that she blames Amanda for my son’s death, which again is totally untrue.

After my ex’s mother’s death in January 2014, my ex as Ros Patterson joined Daily Paintworks in February until July 2014. She did this knowing that with her forthcoming inheritance (at least 40K in May 2014), she could continue the smear campaign, finance Mike Hoeptner (Mike Miller), allowing him to fund his contacts in Spain and to ingratiate herself by buying artwork from various artists on Daily Paintworks.

With hindsight, from July 2014, there were several people arriving at the flying club of which i was a member, wanting to specifically befriend and fly with me. I believe this network was orchestrated by Mike Hoeptner (Mike Miller) from Shaker Heights, Ohio, with funding from my ex. Mike Hoeptner (Mike Miller) speaks fluent Spanish and has numerous contacts in Spain.

September 2014 I emailed my daughter asking if she wanted to talk, to which she replied “I am all talked out”. I believe she did not want to talk because she was aware the smear campaign by her mother was ongoing and things had gone too far. She mentioned she was in the process of separating from her husband David. Concerned about the separation we contacted David to make sure he was okay. We invited him to visit us in Spain which he was very keen to do. My ex’s influence over the family was demonstrated by the fact that David (49 years old at the time and living an hour away in Preston), was too afraid to visit us because he told us my ex ‘had had a right go at him’ and that my daughter too would not like it.

In October 2014 Amanda asked David for my Grandson Tom’s address in Morecambe where he was living with his friends, so she could send a birthday card from us.

Tom had not communicated with us since 2010 apart from the telephone call in 2013 thanking us for the money we sent for his 21st birthday, to which we had not been invited. Amanda asked Tom on his birthday card to email us and let us know how he was getting on. Tom never emailed us although his father David confirmed he had received the card.

In June 2015 David asked if Tom could visit us in Spain. David said Tom was too embarrassed to ask us as he had not been in touch. We found it odd that Tom had not emailed us in October 2014 and that his mother and my ex were agreeing that Tom could visit after threatening his father. Nonetheless we said we would be happy to see him.