Rebecca CussGAZETTE & HERALD: THE 16-YEAR-old daughter of Chippenham cancer cheat Caroline Morgan says she was fed the same pack of lies as everyone else.

Rebecca Cuss, who lives with her dad in Wantage, Oxfordshire, contacted the Gazette after reading about Mrs Morgan.

Two weeks ago the Gazette revealed how Mrs Morgan told boyfriend Alan Owen, of Holland Close, Chippenham, she was dying of liver cancer and spent thousands of pounds of his money before abandoning him.

She also told him a daughter by her second husband had died of meningitis, which was also exposed as a lie when the child's father, Ray Brooks of Abingdon, Oxfordshire, contacted the Gazette last week to say Amber was a healthy, happy nine-year-old.

Rebecca, who is about to take her GCSEs, said she was deserted as a baby and her mum only got back in contact to tell her she was dying of cancer.

"The last time I'd seen her was when I was six but the first thing she told me was that she had bowel cancer," said Rebecca.

Mrs Morgan was about to get married for the third time in May 2003, and asked her daughter to come to the wedding.

"I believed she was dying and didn't want to feel guilty," said Rebecca. "I thought I'd give her one last chance, but she stopped contacting me again straight after the wedding. I think she just wanted to look like the perfect mum on her wedding day."

Rebecca said she felt sick after reading about her mum's lies in the Gazette, but said she knew everything would come to a head eventually.

"I was wondering when it would all come out," she said. "She's told lies over and over again. As a young teenager I was desperate to believe mum wasn't lying to me. But when she set herself deadlines and lived through them all, I knew she must have been. It's pretty disgusting.

"She made it so believable always pretending to have hospital appointments. She even showed me a big satchel of pills she was supposed to be taking.

"I've lived with it for the past 16 years and have had a lot of support from my family. They've always warned me to stay away from her because they know what she's like. It's very hurtful."

Mr Owen, of Holland Close, Chippenham, said Mrs Morgan had lived with him for four months, claiming to need an urgent liver transplant and spend her final few days in a hospice.

The 48-year-old who works at the Dyson factory in Malmesbury said: "I loved her and thought the world of her. She basically said she wanted to come home to die but it was all a big con." Mr Brooks, who has five children including Amber, by Mrs Morgan, said he was also duped into thinking she had terminal cancer.

Mrs Morgan walked out on that marriage, leaving all five children and thousands of pounds of debt in 2000.

She has since seen her children only a handful of times.

Rebecca, Mrs Morgan's first child, said she felt sorry for Mr Brooks and Mr Owen, and would love to meet her half brothers and sisters.