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SINGAPORE \u2013 A British woman at the centre of a Netflix documentary where she is accused of conning a number of people, including her own son, will face more criminal charges in Singapore.<\/p>\n
Dionne Marie Hanna was on April 24 handed 34 charges for alleged offences, including fraud and cheating. It comes a year after she was charged with five counts<\/span><\/a> of fraud<\/span><\/a> by false representation\u00a0<\/b>involving three alleged victims in Singapore.<\/p>\n The 85-year-old now faces 39 charges in total after she was accused in the documentary Con Mum of duping a number of people, including London-based pastry chef Graham Hornigold.<\/p>\n The documentary, which aired on March 25, 2025, showed Hanna meeting Mr Hornigold in 2020 in Britain, where she claimed she was his long-lost mother. <\/p>\n She told him she was linked to the Brunei royal family and said she was terminally ill with cancer. Hanna allegedly used money he gave to fund a lavish lifestye. <\/p>\n A DNA test later proved that she was indeed his mother.<\/p>\n Hanna allegedly ran a similar ruse in Singapore, but after the documentary aired, police arrested her on March 28, 2025, after receiving a number of reports.<\/p>\n According to charge sheets tendered in the State Courts, Hanna told her victims was planning to use the money she raised to donate $3 million to Masjid Khalid in Joo Chiat and $2 million to Mawar Community Services, a non-profit organisation that works with former offenders and their families.<\/p>\n Court documents showed Hanna had claimed that she would distribute her wealth from the Brunei royal family to the victims, including her son.<\/p>\n For each charge of fraud by false representation, Hanna can be jailed for up to 20 years, fined, or both.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n