British woman in Netflix's Con Mum charged in Singapore

Source: BBC

British woman in Netflix's Con Mum charged in Singapore

7 April 2025

Kelly Ng
BBC News
Reporting from Singapore

The British woman at the centre of a Netflix documentary on how she allegedly duped her son and left him in debt to fund her champagne-sipping lifestyle has been charged with fraud in Singapore.

Alleged victims of Dionne Marie Hanna, 84, filed police reports after watching Con Mum, local media report.

They accuse the Singapore resident of taking their money with the promise that they would be reimbursed through her inheritance from Brunei's royal family.

The ploy is similar to the one she allegedly used against London pastry chef Graham Hornigold, after she contacted him in 2020, claiming to be his long-lost mother.

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