On a three-way Zoom, Ash and Jane speak with Sarah May about the man currently dating Nina under the name Nick Radcliffe. Jane recounts their findings: the man appears on a life-coaching site as Justin Warshaw, wearing a wedding ring, contradicting his claim never to have married. Sarah, calm but serious, begins to describe her experience with the same man about twelve years earlier.

Sarah explains she met Justin in a pub when she was twenty-two and vulnerable. He approached kindly, gave her his card, and soon began life-coaching sessions. At first his guidance seemed transformative; he offered a free initial session, then charged increasingly higher rates, ultimately pressuring her into two sessions a week and persuading her to borrow money from her parents.

Over roughly a year, Sarah paid for frequent sessions and overpriced materials that she later discovered were cheap items resold at a premium. Despite believing she was improving, her circumstances had not changed, and she ended up about five thousand pounds in debt. She acknowledges he provided services but manipulated her into unnecessary spending. The arrangement ended abruptly when Justin said he had to move away due to family reasons, and she never heard from him again.

Crucially, Sarah confirms she visited Justin’s home office twice weekly and met his wife, Laura, and two young girls. The house was in Cherry Hinton, a small three-floor cottage on a crescent with open-tread stairs, wisteria, bollards outside, and a view over a nearby park. Sarah suggests Justin alluded to a dark past and, despite the money issues, remembers him as an attentive husband and father and a generally decent person.

After the call, Ash searches Cherry Hinton via online maps using Sarah’s details. She identifies a matching house at 12 Kingston Gardens and gets Sarah’s immediate confirmation by message. Ash learns the house last sold in 2016 but finds no connected names or corporate records, and no online ties linking the address to the name Justin Warshaw.

Ash closes her laptop without further leads, having confirmed that Nina’s boyfriend has used another identity, had a wife and children, and left a financial trail of manipulation.