Mother and daughter ‘sold house they didn’t own’

A mum from Blackpool posed as a multi-millionaire to help pull off an ‘audacious’ £1.2m property fraud so she could share the cash with her model daughter in Dubai, a court heard. Dianne Moorcroft, 62, changed her name by deed poll to convince estate agents and solicitors she was Margaret Gwenllian Richards, 85, the owner of a vacant £3m house in Eagle Place, Kensington, it is said. Moorcroft’s daughter, Dubai-based stable owner and model Laylah De Cruz, 31, is said…