TVTV NewsBBC1The Mother of All Cons is the “insane” BBC documentary fans still can’t get their heads around.Hayley Anderson Screen Time TV Reporter17:39, 12 Jun 2026BBC The Mother of All Cons has been branded as “absolutely nuts”.‌Released last month, The Mother of All Cons is a three-part BBC docu-series about mother and daughter Jean O’Brien and Megan Bhari and their charity Believe in Magic.‌The series is based on Jamie Bartlett’s podcast Believe in Magic: The Mother of All Cons and follows how the celebrity-back charity turned out to be a hoax.‌Megan and Jean from Guildford, Surrey, initially set up the charity in 2012 after they said they were inspired by the 16-year-old’s brain tumour diagnosis three years prior.The charity was a huge success in creating memorable moments for sick children and backed by major celebrities, including Megan’s favourite band One Direction.‌But after three years of fundraising, Jean stated that Megan needed treatment in America and when other parents became suspicious, they discovered the pair actually went to Disney World rather than a hospital.A private investigator captured images of them with their luggage and Megan getting around without oxygen tanks which they claimed she needed.It was later discovered by the Charity Commission that more than £100,000 was unaccounted for and some money was transferred into Jean’s personal account.‌What happened to Megan Bhari?In a shocking turn of events, Megan Bhari died at the age of 23 on March 28, 2018.Following an inquest, a coroner concluded that Megan’s brain was “morphologically normal” and that she didn’t have a brain tumour.She instead died of an acute cardiac arrhythmia caused by fatty liver disease with doctors revealing at her inquest that she had been taking high doses of liquid morphine.‌It has been widely reported that Nina, Megan’s older half-sister, believes that her sister was the victim of a n, formerly known as Munchausen syndrome by proxy.According to the NHS, this is “a rare form of abuse or maltreatment where a parent or carer exaggerates, invents, or deliberately causes symptoms of illness in a child”.Article continues belowIn a statement shared with the BBC in 2023, O’Brien said: "I loved and cared for my daughter. Suggesting I might have harmed her in any way at all is absolutely sickening."It has been reported that O’Brien relocated to France following the scandal but her exact whereabouts now are not known.The Mother of All Cons is available to watch on BBC iPlayerChoose Daily Mirror as a 'Preferred Source' on Google News for quick access to the news you value.‌BBC1