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A Very British Cult

2. The Daily Call

A Very British Cult

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, True Crime, News

4.8867 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Jeff is being drawn deeper and deeper into a life coaching group called Lighthouse. He loves having a mentor and feels great about life. Now it’s time to take the next step, to go full time. But what exactly awaits Jeff, and what is it going to cost him?

What happens when a life coach takes over your life? Catrin Nye and her team expose control, intimidation and fear at a sinister life coaching company.

Reporter: Catrin Nye Written by: Jamie Bartlett and Catrin Nye Producers: Osman Iqbal, Natalie Truswell, Ed Main & Jo Adnitt Researcher: Aisha Doherty Executive Producer: Ravin Sampat Sound Mixing: James Bradshaw Original Music by: Phil Channell Commissioner: Rhian Roberts

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the shocking moment English football has been dreading.

0:05.0

My name is Moses Swaybu and I used to be a professional footballer.

0:08.5

But then I got in deep with organised crime and became a match fixer operating in the English League.

0:14.0

A match fixing investigator has highlighted two matches he says appear to have

0:19.0

suspicious betting patterns.

0:21.0

How honesty are you going to be with me?

0:22.3

This is 100%.

0:23.0

Join me. Sports Strangers Crimes presents. Confessions of a Match mixer.

0:27.0

Listen on BBC Sounds.

0:31.0

BBC Sounds, Music, radio podcasts.

0:35.0

Let me tell you now for free.

0:37.0

The only cuts are made of families, the people that are coming out of families.

0:42.0

These toxic groups called families.

0:46.7

It's summer at 2020 and Jeffrey Lee Jones is being drawn deeper and deeper into a

0:52.1

group called Lighthouse. Jeff joined the life coaching group the year before.

0:57.3

He'd always had a dream of tracking to the South Pole and Lighthouse said they could help him to make it happen.

1:03.8

It was brilliant. I was motivated, I was inspired and I started working hard.

1:10.4

Lighthouse leader Paul War has a vision to help people be a success in life by

1:15.1

making you a better human, a more conscious, more aware person. Jeff has handed over

1:20.9

tens of thousands of pounds to be part of Lighthouse, but his South Pole

1:25.1

trek seems to be almost forgotten.

1:27.5

Because I was questioning him a lot about money and what it was and what the is it mentoring or is it business are you working for them or are

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