(comments in brackets are mine)


Lance Hill (lhill@usc.edu)

10/06/2001

My sources are various newspapers/wire service reports drawn from the Lexis
Nexis database - primarily the St. Petersburg Times (SPT) and Miami New
Times (MNT), but also The Times (London), the Africa News Service (ANS) and
the Business Times (Malaysia) (BTM). Most of the information on his early
years in the UK are from a 1992 article in the Miami New Times by Steven
Almond.

So far, Basil Wainwright has touched people on 3 continents and as run into
trouble in every one. His alternative medicine is the application of ozone
to cure AIDS though cancer and Alzheimer's and other disease cures are
claimed. His early ozone machines blew the gas into either the rectum or
vagina where the gas is supposed to be absorbed and kill germs and viruses
and oxidize all sorts of Bad Things. Later technology uses aphaeresis where
blood is withdrawn from the body, exposed to ozone and then returned.

Basil Wainwright was born in 1933 in Swindon (I assume this is in England).
He moved to Birmingham when he was ten. His father was an automotive
engineer and part-time inventor. I can find no mention of any formal
education at all as doctor, physicist, engineer or anything else. As a young
man in the 50's he did various things as young men usually do like a
motorcycle racing team, jazz band (Basil Wainwright All-Stars). He also
started two car-repair garages and worked in the family car repair business.

In 1975 he started Comlec, a company specializing in custom van bodies.
Unfortunately, 3 years later the business failed. In 1978 he approached BSG
International with a revolutionary fuel-saving automotive ignition system.
BSG was taken by the device and invested $75,000. In 1980, concerned about
where all their money went, BSG sued Wainwright for $210,000.

This same year Wainwright moved to the USA where he started Wainwright
International, a company looking for investors for an auto-dimming rear-view
mirror and the ignition device (now named the Ultimate ignition system).
Wainwright collected money (usually $100,000 a pop) and began to demonstrate
his absolute talent for winning people over and making them willingly write
checks. Ford Motor Company briefly tested the ignition system and declined
any further involvement.

With money running out (the newspapers imply it was because of lavish living
by Wainwright), and investors getting upset or just plain broke, Wainwright
goes back to England in 1981 after a 1 year stay in the US. There he starts
another new company "Tomorrow's World Developments" to attract investors for
the "Butterfly" car (130 mpg and 100 mph). Wainwright manages to drum up so
much interest with a mock-up model that the media becomes attracted to the
story. During this time he meets Noel Edmonds (I guess he's a big-time media
personality in the UK).

Noel confesses to Wainwright that his dream is to break the water speed
record and Wainwright talks him into investing $120,000 toward an effort to
achieve that dream (the Excalibur Project). In July 1981, the same year he
returned from the US, Edmonds demands his money back in front of a TV crew
and Wainwright literally runs away with the cameras chasing him.

In April 1983, the trial begins and Wainwright is eventually found guilty of
22 counts of theft, fraud and forgery. Said the judge, "I am satisfied, and
so is the jury, that you are thoroughly dishonest."

In 1984 he gets out of prison. In 1985 he pleads guilty to another fraud
charge involving another gas-saving device.

In 1986, perhaps thinking the grass is greener across the pond again,
Wainwright goes back to the US and works for Medizone, a legitimate ozone
treatment research company. Here assists in developing an ozone generator in
Arizona. Wainwright leaves Medizone in 1988 after they find out he
exaggerated his academic qualifications.

In 1988 he forms another new company (Decadata Research) with a partner to
sell ozone generators to cure just about anything. This is the machine that
blows ozone into the rectum or vagina - a process they called
"insufflation." Investors plunk down at least several hundred thousand
dollars and perhaps as much as one million. How does he do that?

Only one year later in April 1989, investors are demanding their money back
and the Arizona attorney general is asked to begin an investigation.
Wainwright moves to San Diego in May 1989 and once again starts another
company (Anglo-American Research) to attract investors for a Mexican ozone
clinic. And again, people throw money at him.

This time however, the investor discover Wainwright's past in July and
demand their money back. Wainwright moves to Florida in November 1989 and
the real fun begins.

In south Florida, Wainwright finally gets serious about selling ozone
machines. Still maintaining his company Anglo-American Research, he sells
his machines to individuals for $7500 each and to alt med practitioners for
$8500 each. Insufflation treatments cost patients $35 to $100 each time.

Complaints by patients and the local medicos attract the attention of the
state police, who arrest Wainwright in Oct 1990. Wainwright plea bargains
for a 6 year sentence. During the trial, a "patient" tells his story about
attending a Wainwright seminar in July 1990 hoping to find a remedy for his
wife's lung cancer. He, his wife, daughter and grand-daughter receive an
insufflation treatment the next week for $50 each and he buys an ozone
machine for $7500 in August. In November, there was no improvement in her
condition. Said the patient: "What they do is just sick. They prey on people
who are incapable of making a rational decision."

The wheels of justice move slowly, in April 1991 (San Diego Union Tribune,
4/4/1991) Wainwright is now indicted by a Federal Grand Jury on 10 counts of
fraud. Wainwright is still in jail because the judge refuses to reduce his
$500,000 bail.

During this time, things get very confusing to me. The MNT (3/31/93) reports
he pleads guilty to practicing medicine without a license, is arrested again
in March 1993 for forming Polyatomic Aphaeresis Inc while in jail and then
is sentenced in March 1994 to 3 years in jail (SPT, 5/14/94). IIRC,
Wainwright's site says that the real reason for his incarceration is that
the CIA wanted him in jail to design weapon systems for the US government.

After this bewildering period, he gets out early on parole. The Fed's case
has been repeatedly delayed and Wainwright drops out of sight...

And shows up in Nairobi Kenya in 1996. By Nov 1997 he has started a clinic
(Beyond 2000) and begins using a passport with the name Roderick Stone.

(He still owes this guy money and kept him waiting until he left)

Later, Wainwright tells the local British Consulate this passport was given
to him by the MI5 because his life was in danger in Florida.

Before Kenya finds out about Wainwright, the ANS runs a story about an AIDS
epidemic in the Sudan (ANS, March 9 1998). Bishop Zindo of the Sudan comes
to Kenya to plea for help. Wainwright offers to lend the church his machines
but funds are needed for supplies and shipping - Wainwright says "It is
imperative for the churches to pool whatever resources that can be mastered
to tackle the menace."

Bishop Zindo is so taken by the Wainwright's (yes, he's married by now) that
he leaves with promises that his church would somehow find the money. One
hopes that someone pulled the Bishop aside and broke the news to him gently.

By July 1998, both the Kenyan Medical Association and the Medical
Practitioners & Dentist Board issue statements within a day of each other
saying that Wainwright's ozone treatment are 100% ineffective (ANS, July 5
1998)

Soon after (ANS, July 22 1998) the government of Kenya outlaws Wainwright's
ozone treatment and moves to deport Wainwright (The Times, July 24 1998).
Khama Rogo, the chairman of the KMA: "Some people have died miserably
because of this man. He's been giving false hope to very sick people. He's
also been fleecing people of their money. We want to make sure he ends up in
prison where he belongs."

And believe it or not, during this time Winnie Mandela from South Africa
comes to Kenya to lend her support to Wainwright.

The news is quiet about Wainwright until Nov 1999, where an ANS story
mentions Wainwright shows up uninvited to a Kenyan AIDS awareness seminar
and is removed by hotel security. He leaves in a chauffer-driven car.

Rumours begin circulating that Wainwright (by now "Dr Stone" in the ANS
reports, quotes included) is still performing ozone treatments. In Jan 2000,
the police raided his villa in Nyali and found a 5 or 10 bed clinic and a
staff member who admits they were treating people. Wainwright was nowhere to
be found.

(To be fair, this was a set-up by a boyfriend of one of his girls who knew an
FBI and CID agent and told them to destroy Basil, but it was also the clinic
that I had financed, Basil was in Nairobi at the time, maybe he knew.)

That's all there is about Wainwright himself. He's out of sight for now....

But his shadow still exists. On Oct 25, 2000 the Business Times (Malaysia)
ran a story about a joint Malaysian-British venture that is seeking
investors for a US$25 million Malaysian factory to produce AIDS oxygen
therapy equipment invented by Basil Wainwright. The company called Real
Science is based in the "West Indies" and is also talking to interested
parties in India and Pakistan. The company estimates each therapy unit will
sell for US$100,000.


(The last part of this was a plan to create funds, just in case you were wondering, there was no truth in it.)