The Mother Of All Cons

notgran

I watched this yesterday and was a bit ashamed I had no knowledge of all this. The tenacity of the 2 parents who did their own investigation was admirable. I stopped a few years ago giving to charities of which I know little of their "workings" and now only give to ones I am 100% sure of where the money goes. Highly recommend watching this programme

I am always a bit wary of charity giving - I sometimes think I am allowing myself less so that I can improve the salaries of some of the chief execs and senior staff who all seem to receive much more in salary, bonuses and 'perks' than I ever did, or do. I have looked some of them up online and it is astonishing.

Sarnia Me too! Poor child & evil mom 🥲

She777 Having her CNS suppressed for so long was the cause of her arrhythmia, so yes mom organised her chronic illness and death. It was murder by a sick evil mother

Kells9278

“I’m not questioning the documentary’s conclusion that Megan did not have the terminal brain tumour people were told she had. What I can’t reconcile is the footage and witness accounts of adult hospital admissions where friends describe visiting her and seeing tubing coming from her head. Did the medical records ever explain what procedure this was, or why she was receiving that treatment

It’s a while since I watched the programme but didn’t it say that Megan had been diagnosed with fluid on her brain (but not a brain tumour) and had been fitted with a shunt.
I’ve heard that these can sometimes get blocked and require treatment so perhaps that would account for her being in hospital and having a tube coming out of her head?
I thought the programme was fascinating too and wondered if Megan died as a result of her addiction to morphine? Such a sad story.

Oh, sorry. I assumed from the title that this must be about the Orange Baboon, who got over 75million gullible nitwits to vote hm back, despite the evidence of his first term, and an attempted revolution at the end of it. And now we're all paying a heavy price.

I guessed it was Munchausen by Proxy from quite early on but only because I already knew it was a con as I was watching it after the event. Well done to those parents who persevered in finding out the truth.

what is the name of this drama

Nicklebox

what is the name of this drama

It's called The Mother Of All Cons and is on BBC iPlayer. It's in 3 parts and if it was fiction you would say it was far-fetched but, sadly, it is all true.

I felt terribly sorry for her contemporaries who seemed broken by the whole thing.

I can’t believe the Mother has never been charged with anything. She was clearly behind all this. Very impressed with the other daughter who spoke out against her Mother (who she refused to call “Mother”) and the charity.

I think if jean is charged she will get off and claim mental health due to munchhousens by proxy so she will walk free for sure . I listened to bbc sounds podcast as well and it's more in depth than the tv documentary. Jean is a very clever woman, but needs to be pulled in and be accountable for Megs death .

Such a sad but intriguing story. Poor Meg, I'm another who would want the mother to be brought to justice but how could a mother do this to her child?

Kells I don’t understand about the hospital scenes either