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Documentary examining the story behind Believe in Magic, a charity for seriously ill children that was launched in 2010 by 16-year-old Megan Bhari, whose mother claimed she had been diagnosed with a brain tumour three years before. Inspired by Megan's courage and self-sacrifice, celebrities and her beloved One Direction were more than willing to donate their time and money to the cause and raised money to send Meghan abroad for expensive treatment in America. But in an online chatroom, some parents whose own children have been treated for cancer abroad began asking questions
More details for The Mother of All Cons, Fri 21, 2:35 am
In 2016, the parents-turned-sleuths have tracked Megan and Jean down to Disney World in Florida and are still questioning how ill the teenager really is. They can see that people are still donating to the fundraising campaign, many of them also parents of sick children, and so they resolve to raise the alarm that Meg might not be ill at all, but then a tragedy makes them question everything they have uncovered
More details for The Mother of All Cons, Fri 28, 12:45 am
On the day of Megan's funeral, the service is suddenly cancelled as the authorities want to carry out another post-mortem and rumours circulate that the police are now involved. The coroner's inquest concludes Megan died of natural causes and there is no mention of a brain tumour, but some of Megan's closest friends are baffled. If Megan wasn't ill, why did she show symptoms and why was she taking such enormous quantities of medication?
More details for The Mother of All Cons, Thu 3, 2:05 am