Revisited: A Scottish tea mystery, episode three – a bag for life

Summary

Science Weekly – "Revisited: A Scottish Tea Mystery, Episode Three – A Bag for Life"

Date: July 23, 2026
Host: Nicola Davis

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Episode Overview

The final episode in Science Weekly's special mini-series delves into the conclusion of the “Scottish Tea Mystery.” Host Nicola Davis leads listeners through the unraveling of Tam o’ Bran’s fraudulent Scottish tea scheme, the investigation that exposed him, and the complicated legacy he leaves for Scotland’s burgeoning tea industry. The episode combines investigative journalism, personal reflections from those involved, and an examination of how new, legitimate Scottish tea growers are forging ahead after the scandal.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Fraud Uncovered (01:42–08:10)

• Investigation Progress:
  Food Standards Scotland, via investigator Stuart Wilson, discovers that the supposedly Scottish teas sold by Tam o’ Bran were largely not from Scotland. The tea plants originated from Italy, and much of the tea sold to hotels was sourced from wholesalers in Oxford and London.

  • “We identified that over…2015 to 2019, he bought many hundreds of kilos…from both of these wholesalers…almost similar to what he’d sold to the hotels.” — Stuart Wilson (02:57)

• Tracing the Tea:
  A dramatic case of direct tracing: 13 kilos of high-value “silver needles” tea sold to the Balmoral Hotel were matched exactly to a purchase from a wholesaler just the previous week.

  • “We were able to identify that in the week leading up to that sale…he’d sourced 13 kilos…from the wholesalers.” — Stuart Wilson (03:32)

• Deception and Identity Manipulation:
  Tam manipulated email addresses, pretending to be his own office manager to fend off queries from growers, thereby fabricating a larger team.

  • “He’d taken the name of a genuine person…to pretend he had this larger team.” — Richard Ross (05:27)

2. Fanciful Claims & Exaggerations (05:48–10:21)

• Fake Awards & Achievements:
  Investigation reveals that supposed international accolades, such as the Salon d'ét award in Paris and the London Silver Tea Exchange Award, were fictitious.

  • “Nobody had heard of the Salon d’…it doesn’t exist.” — Stuart Wilson (05:57)
  • “The owner…says, no, we don’t give out awards at all. We are simply a tea shop…” — Stuart Wilson (06:35) Tam also claimed to have invented the “bag for life,” invented industry-specific plastic, served in bomb disposal, and even lived on a canoe in the Amazon.

• Ridiculous Growing Claims:
  Tam suggested you could “force” tea plants like rhubarb using tree tubes—even though agricultural experts refuted this as “absolute nonsense.”

  • “Tea plants aren’t like rhubarb…absolute nonsense.” — Beverly Claire Wainwright (07:51)

• Memorable Cross-Examination:
  During the trial, Tam’s supposed special plastic mulch was revealed as nothing more than a black bin liner.

  • “She said, but that just looks like a bin liner. And his response was, and that’s what you’re meant to think.” — Stuart Wilson (09:17)

3. The Trial and Its Outcome (08:36–11:09)

• Charges and Verdict:
  Tam (real name Thomas Robinson) is charged with two counts of fraud totaling about £550,000.

  • “He was charged with two counts of fraud or fraudulent schemes…about £550,000.” — Stuart Wilson (08:36) The jury finds him guilty on all counts, and he is sentenced to three and a half years in prison.
  • “The jury…were content that every single part of both charges had been evidenced guilty.” — Stuart Wilson (10:28)

• Reflections on the Fraud:
  Those defrauded express relief but also fascination with the psychology of such a sustained deception.

  • “It feels like he couldn’t have done all the things he did…without somehow just believing…he was doing something that wasn’t really out of the ordinary…” — Richard Ross (11:09)

4. The Media’s Role and Lingering Effects (12:38–14:28)

• Journalistic Reflections:
  Host Nicola Davis reflects on how media coverage inadvertently lent legitimacy to Robinson, illustrating the ripple effects of reporting on unverified claims.

• Network of Deceit:
  Richard Ross discusses how Tam used partial truths to maintain credibility, creating a self-fulfilling web that was hard to untangle.

  • “He was always quite good at leaving a little kernel of truth somewhere in the middle of the stories…” — Richard Ross (13:24)
  • “Nobody was aware of the full picture…we all had elements, but weren’t able to really see everything…” — Richard Ross (14:14)

5. The Legacy: New Beginnings & Hard Lessons (14:28–21:28)

• Mixed Outcomes for Growers:
  Richard’s own tea plants didn’t survive, but Paolo (the Italian grower) reports a silver lining: his son returned home to take over the now-thriving Italian tea plantation.

  • “Misfortunes brought me to a good result because now [my son]…is running the business…” — Paolo (14:55)

• Scottish Tea’s Future:
  Some Scottish growers now use plants sourced from Turkey, with promising results:

  • “Our tea is doing quite well here. It’s from the Turkish Highlands, I believe.” — Isla Henderson (16:52)

  Isla and others now work directly with growers like Paolo, bypassing fraudulent middlemen entirely and producing small but increasing quantities of tea in Scotland.

  • “We just thought that it sounded great for the west coast of Scotland…Tea actually loves those conditions.” — Isla Henderson (17:07)

• Sustainable Practices:
  Experimenting with green options, Isla works with university experts and robotics to grow tea more sustainably and efficiently.

  • “Strathclyde University…provided us with an autonomous and sensor-equipped robotic mower…” — Isla Henderson (18:44)

• Irony of Tam’s Role:
  Some believe the Scottish tea industry might not exist in its current form without Tam’s initial (if fraudulent) spark.

  • “Ironically, we may not have done it without him…initially we’d heard about it from him.” — Isla Henderson (19:29) Others, like Richard, credit the genuine Italian growers who supplied viable plants.
  • “It was all based on a lie…I think the…plantations…are more a tribute to one grower in the north of Italy…” — Richard Ross (20:04)

• Enduring Love for Tea:
  Despite it all, Richard’s passion for tea remains undiminished and Scotland’s boutique tea industry continues to evolve.

  • “I continue to be a fan of tea…I enjoy talking about tea and encouraging people to drink the best tea they possibly can.” — Richard Ross (20:37)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “He’d taken control of a former employee’s email address…pretend that he had this larger team and also just to fend off inquiries…” — Richard Ross (05:27)
• “Nobody had heard of the Salon d’é t awards…we’re able to say it doesn’t exist.” — Stuart Wilson (05:57)
• “That just looks like a bin liner. — And that’s what you’re meant to think.”
  — (Exchange during trial, recounted by Stuart Wilson) (09:17)
• “He was always quite good at leaving a little kernel of truth somewhere in the middle of the stories…” — Richard Ross (13:24)
• “Misfortunes brought me to a good result because now [my son]…is running the business and he’s taking my place…” — Paolo (14:55)
• “I still get phone calls from people every single month wanting to put their life savings into growing tea…” — Beverly Claire Wainwright (15:40)
• “Ironically, we may not have done it without him…initially we’d heard about it from him.” — Isla Henderson (19:29)
• "There's plenty other ways to be involved in tea...there is a new chapter of Scottish Grown Tea which is exciting, but it'll always be a small sort of boutique industry, but a really interesting one." — Richard Ross (20:37)

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Key Timestamps

• 01:42 – Intro to the fraud, tracing the tea’s origin with investigators and growers.
• 02:57 – Discovery of wholesale purchases matching questionable sales.
• 05:27 – Revelation of Tam’s email manipulations.
• 05:48–07:08 – Debunking of false awards and other extravagant claims.
• 09:17 – Trial moment: fake plastic mulch exposed as a bin liner.
• 10:28 – Jury verdict: guilty on all counts.
• 13:24–14:14 – Discussion of how partial truths maintained the fraud.
• 14:55 – Paolo’s story of redemption through family.
• 17:07–18:44 – Isla Henderson describes successful tea growing and sustainable innovations.
• 19:29–20:04 – Reflection on Tam’s inadvertent influence and proper credit to Italian growers.
• 20:37 – Richard’s enduring passion for tea and Scottish tea’s boutique future.

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Conclusion

This concluding episode of Science Weekly’s Scottish Tea Mystery encapsulates a fascinating real-life detective story. Listeners hear the final judgment against the fraudster once known as Tam o’ Bran, insights from those involved, and the resilience of genuine Scottish tea growers who are forging a promising—if small-scale—future. In the end, the story becomes one not only of fraud, but of perseverance, community, and the surprising outcomes that can arise from the ashes of a scandal.

Transcript

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[Nicola Davis]

Today is the third episode of our investigative series, A Scottish Tea Mystery. So if you haven't heard episodes one and two, scroll back in your podcast feed now. Hi, I'm Nicola Davis, a science correspondent here at the Guardian, and this is the final episode of a special Science Weekly mini series, A Scottish tea mystery. Episode 3 A Bag for Life. When Food Standard Scotland investigator Stuart Wilson had collected all the information he could on Tam o' Bran and his supposedly Scottish teas, the evidence pointed one way. Neither the tea plants nor the vast majority of those finished products were genuine. The plants had arrived in Scotland from the sunny shores of Lake Maggiore in Italy, and Professor David Burslam had explored the origins of the processed teas, confirming most clearly did not come from Scottish soils. And so Stuart set about finding out where they had come from.

[Stuart Wilson]

We applied for warrants for his bank account, and within that we identified two wholesalers of tea. So one wholesaler from Oxford area, another wholesaler from London area. So we went and visited them. We identified that over the period of roughly 2015 to 2019, he bought many hundreds of kilos of various tea types from both of these wholesalers And I suppose ultimately, when we balanced them all together, the quantities were almost similar to what he'd sold to the hotels. There was one particular tea type that I remember called silver needles, and that's a really expensive tea type. And we knew that 13 kilos of silver needles had been sold to the Balmoral Hotel. And we were able to identify that in the week leading up to that sale at the Balmoral, he'd sourced 13 kilos of silver needles from the wholesalers.

[Nicola Davis]

It wasn't just hotels and shops that had received fraudulent tea from tam. Remember in episode one, when he turned up at Richard's house with that big bucket of tea, claiming it had come from Richard's plants?

[Richard Ross]

The wholesaler explained that most of this business was conducted by email. An order would be made and then payment would be forthcoming and he would send to her an address in Glasgow, actually, just up the street, this very street that we're on now, actually. But the one occasion when he did actually meet him face to face, TAM came to his business premises in London and paid in cash for several kilos of a white peony tea. And the date of that was literally the week after the press visit to my plantation that precipitated the delivery of this bucket of tea two weeks later.

[Nicola Davis]

And what about that office manager who was full of excuses and evasions? And anytime the tea growers wanted to

[Richard Ross]

get hold of Tam, the office manager was sending emails, signed off with a kiss at the end. And this is somebody that none of us had ever met. We were joking amongst ourselves that this was a little bit odd and that it was a little bit sort of forward, perhaps. And then we even joked that maybe this is just Tam pretending to be this person.

[Nicola Davis]

It turns out the growers were right in their suspicions. TAM had taken control of a farm former employee's email address.

[Richard Ross]

He'd taken the name of a genuine person who had had some dealings with him in the past and used that to pretend that he had this larger team. And also just to fend off inquiries and requests.

[Nicola Davis]

Richard had his answers. But what about the claim that had always bothered me, that Salon d' et award from Paris.

[Stuart Wilson]

So we spoke to many TA experts and nobody had heard of the Salon d'. Awards. And we spoke to experts in France as well, because the claim was that it had been presented in Paris, so that essentially, we're able to say, doesn't exist.

[Nicola Davis]

It seems the Salon d' is just a normal cosy tea room in Paris, which appears from the pictures online to be filled with trinkets. And old books. Not the sort of place that hands out international awards. And that wasn't the only rather fanciful claim Tam had made over the years that Stewart had to look into before taking Tam to trial.

[Stuart Wilson]

The London Silver Tea Exchange Award. So there is a tea shop in London, the London Tea Exchange, I think it's called. So we spoke with the owner there and he says, no, we don't give out awards at all. We are simply a tea shop and we sell tea to customers who come in for a cup of tea. So in terms of other things that are reporting the media, there was claims that he'd served in the army, there were claims that he was a multi millionaire, there were claims that he'd invented the bag for life and various other things. And we could find no evidence throughout the whole inquiry to substantiate any of those claims.

[Nicola Davis]

That's astonishing. There was one, I think, where he said he had worked in bomb disposal.

[Stuart Wilson]

Yes, yes, again, quite a fanciful claim. One would suggest so. No, there was no evidence to support any of these claims that we could find.

[Nicola Davis]

My personal favourite is Tam's assertions that you can force tea like rhubarb.

[Richard Ross]

He gave us these protective tubes, the kind of tubes that the trees have put in beside the road, which he suggested would be excellent for helping to, as he described it, force the plant. He likened it to growing rhubarb under the sink in your kitchen, which tea

[Nicola Davis]

experts have told me is definitely not the way to grow it.

[Beverly Claire Wainwright]

Oh, yes, of course you can force rhubarb, because that's what he was saying. He'd managed to force the tea plants in two years because of his magic plastic, which is just not true. Tea plants aren't like rhubarb, you know, rhubarb's a crown, it's a completely different plant. Absolute nonsense.

[Nicola Davis]

A few other especially surprising claims, reported by a journalist back in 2017, included that Tam had spent four years living on a canoe in the Amazon, was bitten by a deadly snake in Brazil and had been shot at on the Thailand Burma border. Huge, if true, as we say in the business. As for Stewart, he had all the evidence he needed in the bag.

[Stuart Wilson]

So he was charged with two counts of fraud or fraudulent schemes, which amounted to a grand total of about £550,000.

[Nicola Davis]

And during the trial itself, other claims came unstuck. You might recall from episode one that Tam told Richard he was an agronomist. He told others he was a polymer scientist. That's how he ended up inventing or not the Bag for life.

[Stuart Wilson]

Part of the ruse, I suppose, that he told to the plant growers was that he'd sold them as part of the package was these plastic guards which would go around the trees, which are essentially just, you know, these green plastic things you see go around trees anyway. But he'd also developed this particular plastic that you could put on the ground and it would insulate the ground and all that type of stuff and it would resist the elements. So during the trial, this was actually referenced by the procreator Fiskel, who showed him a photograph and she said, but that just looks like a bin liner. And his response was, and that's what you're meant to think. And it looked very much like a black bin liner. And I would be surprised if it wasn't a black bin.

[Nicola Davis]

Oh, my goodness me. Tam took the stand in his own

[Stuart Wilson]

defence and essentially his evidence was, it wasn't me, it was somebody else. What I've done is true, and if you don't believe me, that's on you. He claimed that anything that he could have provided in support of his position was either destroyed in a flood or lost by his IT tech chap. So he wasn't able ultimately to produce any evidence to support his position.

[Nicola Davis]

And so when the time arrived for the jury to make their decision based on the evidence they'd seen and heard,

[Stuart Wilson]

they came back and there was no amendments or deletions. So they. They were content that every single part of both charges had been evidenced guilty.

[Nicola Davis]

Tam was given a three and a half year jail sentence. But I have one more thing to admit to you. Tom o' Brien wasn't his real name. He's actually called Thomas Robinson, although he also goes by Tom o'. Brien. Sitting in the tea room in Glasgow with Richard, after hearing his journey with Thomas Robinson, I wondered how he was feeling now about the verdict and about Robinson himself.

[Richard Ross]

It was a relief to an extent. I mean, it was a pretty unambiguous verdict. But the whole psychology of the fraudster, I think, is baffling and fascinating. It feels like he couldn't have done all the things he did and maintained this level of lie and fabrication over a period of years without somehow just believing that it was normalized and he was doing something that wasn't really out of the ordinary or out of the legal process.

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[Nicola Davis]

On the train up to Glasgow As I'd been going back through all the old articles and notes to prepare for my interview with Richard, I'd been reflecting on my own role in the story. Alongside many other journalists, I'd reported something that turned out not to be true. My article and all the others like it had lent Robinson legitimacy, which he then traded on to draw in others. It was a really uncomfortable feeling. I'd also been duped by his cloak of credibility lent by others pictures and films of the tea plants tea being sold in fancy hotels. I asked Richard how he thought about all this.

[Richard Ross]

He created this network that was sort of self perpetuating to a degree and I think ultimately not enough people knew what was involved in tea to be able to point the finger directly. And yes, he told a lot of strange stories which in retrospect and when you add them all up together seem pretty preposterous. But he was always quite good at leaving a little kernel of truth somewhere in the middle of the stories. He told something that you couldn't quite say, well that's wrong. You think, well, I know that little bit is right, so maybe I'm just missing something here. Maybe he is an absolute genius and nobody kind of wants to be the person who sort of pricks the balloon.

[Nicola Davis]

Maybe it sounds a little like almost a house of cards. Everyone was slightly propping up this elaborate story without really seeing the bigger picture of their role.

[Richard Ross]

Yes, nobody was aware of the full picture. We all had elements, but weren't able to really see everything that was going on and piece together the sort of scale of the fraud.

[Nicola Davis]

Even now, the consequences of Robinson's actions are being felt. Richard's plants didn't survive, although he has a few in his garden as a keepsake, a reminder of his dalliance into tea and a way to tell guests a very bizarre story. Paolo's unpaid bill has Never been settled. Although he did get one thing that money can't buy.

[Paolo]

I had a son which is 38 now, and he was making his career around the world. And after the COVID he said, I come back to Italy if you give me the tea plantation. I said, okay, you take the tea plantation, you come back. So misfortunes brought me to a good result because now he's running the business and he's taking my place and doing very well. A lot of unusual, unpleasant things turn out to be a pleasant thing, like Voltaire in Candido.

[Nicola Davis]

Paolo and his son might be successfully growing tea in Italy, partly because of Robinson. But what about in Scotland?

[Beverly Claire Wainwright]

I still get phone calls from people every single month wanting to put their life savings into growing tea because they think they're going to make loads of money from it.

[Nicola Davis]

That's Beverly Claire Wainwright, the tea expert we heard from in episode one.

[Beverly Claire Wainwright]

I'm quite glad they come to me because I can at least give them the facts, you know, reality check. If you're going into something, do your research, understand what the pitfalls are. And if you're buying tea, I would say ask questions.

[Nicola Davis]

When she moved back to Scotland after working at a tea estate in Sri Lanka, Beverly began to help all the people Tam had sold plants to. Eventually she was even one of the people who reported Tam to Food Standard Scotland.

[Beverly Claire Wainwright]

I just thought, this chap is just going to keep on lying and defrauding people. It seemed to me like it would just keep on going. And also I'm the one that was fielding inquiries about growing tea. I didn't want people to get their fingers burnt, you know,

[Nicola Davis]

But not everyone got their fingers burned because some of the later Scottish tea growers got the plants Paolo had sourced from Turkey.

[Isla Henderson]

Quite ironically. Our tea is doing quite well here. It's from the Turkish Highlands, I believe.

[Nicola Davis]

Isla henderson initially bought 1500 plants from Robinson and growing tea remains her full time job.

[Isla Henderson]

We just thought that it sounded great for the west coast of Scotland. It's a very acid soil here and there's an awful lot of rain. Tea actually loves those conditions. So it's been doing quite well, actually. We've had about an 80% success rate, which I think is quite good. We have about 7,000 plants now, so we actually have bought more from Paolo.

[Nicola Davis]

So directly without the middleman.

[Isla Henderson]

Without the middleman, thank goodness.

[Nicola Davis]

What's different is the people growing tea in Scotland today aren't selling big batches. They can't. They're producing very small quantities. So much so that some of them are pooling their efforts.

[Isla Henderson]

We're making a group tea because we wouldn't have had enough leaf for the machinery in year one, when our plants were four years old.

[Nicola Davis]

This year they made 12 kilos of processed tea, equivalent to about 4,000 pots worth.

[Isla Henderson]

So it's very small batches still, but we've doubled our yields from last year. Now the plants are a little bit older, they're taking about seven years to sort of grow to optimum yield here in Argyle.

[Nicola Davis]

Anyway, I've actually treated myself to some very expensive single estate tea grown in Angus, not too far from Dundee. I've been reliably informed it comes from a tea plantation that was started before Tam burst onto the scene. And I have to say, it's delicious and goes to show what Scotland can produce. Isla is even taking part in her own tea experiments.

[Isla Henderson]

Strathclyde University actually approached us. They've provided us with an autonomous and sensor equipped robotic mower, which now keeps the weeds down in the plantation. Because I'm encouraging green manure crops as an understory crop in my tea plantation, which fixes nitrogen. So I'm avoiding the use of nitrogen fertilisers. I have a few experts working on it. One of them's a biomimicry, sort of robotics expert. And so it's really interesting.

[Nicola Davis]

It's an exciting time for tea in Scotland once more, and this time it's for real. Despite everything, though, it was Tam o' Bran who catalyzed the industry.

[Isla Henderson]

I've thought about this myself and I think that, ironically, we may not have done it without him. I mean, because we may have found plants elsewhere, but initially we'd heard about it from him. So we may not have thought of it, we may have thought of another crop, you know.

[Nicola Davis]

But when I asked Richard about whether Tam could truly take credit for where tea was headed in Scotland now, he was keen to point out recognition should probably go to someone else.

[Richard Ross]

It's true that he did spark a lot of interest in the potential for Scottish tea, but it was all based on a lie. I think the fact that there are established plantations in Scotland doing well are more a tribute to one grower in the north of Italy, providing us with viable plants.

[Nicola Davis]

Has this put you off drinking tea at all, Richard? Are you still a fan of tea or do you drink coffee now instead?

[Richard Ross]

I continue to be a fan of tea. I realize I'm not going to make my millions out of a tea plantation, but there's plenty other ways to be involved in tea. I enjoy talking about tea and encouraging people to drink the best tea that they possibly can. Although in Scotland we haven't been growing tea for very long. Lots of different tea growing regions around the world. We're really sort of instigated and grown by Scots, so we do have a very strong historical connection with tea. And there is a new chapter of Scottish Grown Tea which is exciting, but it'll always be a small sort of boutique industry, but a really interesting one.

[Nicola Davis]

A big thank you to everyone I spoke to for this mini series, especially Richard Ross Pau as a carer Beverly Claire Wainwright, Stuart Wilson, Isla Henderson, Professor David Burslam as well as doctors Amanda Lloyd and Manfred Beckman from Aberystwyth University and Professor Russell Frew, co founder and Chief Scientist at Oritane, a forensic investigation company that verifies the origins of products. Our podcast has referred to the Wee Tea Plantation. This is not to be confused with the Wee Tea Company, a retailer that does not grow tea themselves. They did supply tea purporting to be grown by Tamo Bran at his plantation, but they were unaware of his fraudulent activity and sold the tea in good faith. They said to us they are a separate small business who supply teas from trusted and and verifiable international suppliers. A Scottish tea mystery was reported and presented by me, Nicola Davis. It was produced by Madeline Findlay, the sound design was by Joel Cox and the executive producer was Ellie Bewey.

[Stuart Wilson]

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