An 84-year-old British lady who included in the Netflix documentary Con Mum for apparently scamming her child out of ₤ 300,000 has actually been charged with several counts of scams in Singapore.
Dionne Marie Hanna appeared before Singapore’s State Courts by means of video link from a healthcare facility bed on Saturday, unrepresented and accompanied by an examining officer, regional media reported.
She was charged with 5 counts of scams by incorrect representation including 3 declared victims and consequently bought remanded for a week after her release from the Tan Tock Seng Healthcare Facility. She will next appear in court on 11 April.
After the documentary aired on 25 March, a number of people in Singapore acknowledged her from the movie and reported being defrauded by her, the Singapore cops stated. The authorities stated the problems started being available in on 28 March, the very same day she was jailed.
The declared victims declared Ms Hanna had actually used comparable methods to those displayed in the documentary versus them: she incorrectly declared to be ill with cancer and stated that she wanted to distribute her produced fortune, frequently conjuring up ties to the Brunei royal household or guarantees of big contributions to mosques and social work.
In order for her to “get” her inheritance or support her charitable objectives, she apparently persuaded individuals to move cash for things like legal charges or the opening of abroad savings account, Channel News Asia reported.
The victims are stated to have actually thought her story and sent her cash, believing they would be compensated as soon as her inheritance was launched.
If founded guilty, Ms Hanna might confront twenty years in prison for each of the 5 charges.
In France and Singapore, she apparently deceived an individual called Paiman Supangat by impersonating a terminally ill Brunei royal, encouraging him to cover her legal charges and provide her shopping cash under incorrect guarantees of payment and inheritance.
She apparently informed the very same story of her terminal disease and inheritance free gift to trick Mohamed Syafiq Paiman in Singapore.
A 3rd victim, Mohamed Ariffin, was apparently misinformed into thinking Ms Hanna meant to contribute millions to regional charities.
The cops stated Ms Hanna was most likely connected to a minimum of 5 such cases with overall losses to the victims surpassing ₤ 120,000.
Con Mum informs the story of London pastry chef Graham Hornigold, whose life was turned upside down when Ms Hanna, declaring to be his long-lost mom, appeared in 2020.
A DNA test included in the documentary validated that she was certainly his biological mom.
Providing herself as a rich Brunei royal, Ms Hanna apparently fooled Mr Hornigold and other individuals out of numerous countless pounds, straining his relationship and resulting in a break up.
Informed through interviews with Mr Hornigold, his ex-partner and other declared victims, the movie ends with a video contact which Ms Hanna declares to be in Malaysia.