Con Mum true story - how chef Graham Hornigold was scammed by dying 'mother'

One of the UK’s top pastry chefs Graham Hornigold was shocked and delighted when he was contacted out of the blue by someone claiming to be his long-lost mother.

But the arrival of this crucial missing ingredient from his life would ultimately leave him with thousands of pounds of debt and a nasty taste in his mouth.

This extraordinary tale, as mother and son reunited and then the resulting anguish as it fell apart, was chronicled in the Netflix documentary Con Mum ,

The 90-minute programme, which launched in March, was directed by Bafta-nominated Nick Green and made by UK independent production company Forest.

Now in the wake of the programme, Hornigold has revealed how he has tried to recover both financially and emotionally from the episode.

He told Sky’s Money : “You