‘Yes, I know I stole £1.2m. I can give you £375?’

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  A woman who got her mother to pose as a 91-year-old millionaires to pull off a £1.2million property scam has just £375 left, a court heard. Laylah De Cruz, 32, urged her mother Dianne Moorcroft, 63, to change her name by deed poll to convince estate agents and solicitors she was the owner of a vacant £3m house in Kensington. Moorcroft obtained a British passport and Dubai resident’s permit in the name of the true owner, 91-year-old Margaret Gwenllian…

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