Cancer Faker Tricked Boyfriend Into Giving Her £25,000 To Pay For Boob Job
A Derby mum who falsely claimed to have terminal cancer tricked her (now-ex) boyfriend into paying for her boob job and buying her a Rolex.
Laura McPherson, 35, even led her young daughter to believe she was dying as she carried on the con for 5 years.
During McPherson’s relationship with ex Jon Leonard, he bought her a £30,000 Rolex watch as he believed it was ‘wrong’ to deny it to someone who would die soon.
He also gave her £24,248 to fund what he thought was treatment for cervical, ovarian, colon, bowel and breast cancer, but was instead spent on a trip to fancy resort in Austria and a boob job in Manchester.
McPherson’s lies began in 2017 when she told Leonard she had been diagnosed with cervical cancer. Since then, she’d been lying and guilt-tripping him to get what she wanted.
Leonard told Derby Crown Court this week that he had since received two messages on social media from people who told him that Laura had claimed to have cancer before.
One warned: ‘I went to school with Laura in the Highlands. She lied about having cancer there too.’
Someone else told him: ‘Wish I had warned you that time I saw you at Elvaston Castle together, but didn’t know the lengths she had gone to. She had been claiming ovarian cancer since she was 16 to us at school. I’m glad her 20 years of lies finally caught up with her.’
Leonard said McPherson had stolen eight years of his life and left him ’emotionally scarred’. He described how he would receive calls from McPherson’s daughter’s school because the girl had broken down in tears, worried that her mum was going to die. How f****d up is that?
Leonard became suspicious after he got in touch with one of Britain’s leading private cancer specialists and tried to arrange an appointment for McPherson, but she insisted she would rather stick with her NHS treatment.
She also claimed to have had a hysterectomy in 2020 but was spotted climbing a mountain two days later. The same year, she said she would need a mastectomy but instead spent Leonard’s cash on breast augmentation surgery.
On New Year’s Eve 2021, Leonard dropped her off for what she said was treatment to her cervix… but she jumped in a cab and went to Coventry for a night out instead.
In the end, McPherson admitted to fraud and was given a two-year community order and five-night-a-week curfew. Which sounds a little lenient considering the diabolical nature of her lies, the way she took advantage of her ex, and how long she carried it on for, but I guess it’s no use leaving her daughter without her mum.
After the compensation ruling, Leonard said in a statement: ‘It’s finally over. Today marks the end of eight and a half challenging years.
‘She never had cancer, and it has now come to light she has been making up having cancer since she was in secondary school, long before I knew her. She has been exposed for the horrible, lying, manipulative individual she is.’
In case you’re wondering how Jon Leonard could afford to splash out on a Rolex and breast surgery for his ‘dying’ ex, he runs the Ultra Events platform which raises millions for charities (and himself). Here’s hoping the next one doesn’t waste your time, Jon! Plenty more fish in the sea.
For the Bollywood actress who faked her own death in order to ‘spread awareness’ of cervical cancer, click HERE. Safe to say it backfired.
