Star of Netflix’s Con Mum who scammed MasterChef son arrested for fraud
She allegedly defrauded multiple people, claiming royal ties.
The British woman at the centre of a Netflix documentary on how she allegedly tricked her son into funding her expensive lifestyle has been charged with fraud in Singapore.
Several people have claimed that Dionne Marie Hanna, 84, also conned them, leading them to file police reports after watching Con Mum, according to local media.
Hanna, a Singapore resident, allegedly took money from these individuals with promises to reimburse them from her inheritance from Brunei’s royal family.
The con is not dissimilar to the one she pulled against former MasterChef contestant Graham Hornigold after she contacted him in 2020, claiming to be his biological mother.
A DNA test later proved that Hanna was Hornigold’s mother, but she deceived him in other ways in order to get him to fund her lavish lifestyle.
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Charged with five counts of fraud, Hanna appeared before a district court on Saturday via video link while convalescing in the hospital. An investigating officer accompanied her, Singapore’s Channel NewsAsia reported.
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