GAZETTE & HERALD: CANCER con-woman Caroline Morgan told lover Alan Owen that her baby daughter had died of meningitis.

But this week the baby's father Mrs Morgan's ex-husband Ray Brooks said nine-year-old Amber was alive and kicking.

Mr Brooks, who lives in Abingdon, Oxon, was married to Mrs Morgan between 1991-2000 and fathered her five children.

He said reading Mr Owen's story in last week's Gazette was like deja vu.

"She told me she was dying of liver cancer at the beginning of 2003," said Mr Brooks, 47.

"By the October she told me she didn't have long left and I had to break the news to my children.

"It was a horrible thing to tell them their mum was going to die. Eighteen months later she's still here she's the only person I know that's had a miracle cure."

Mr Brooks said his ex-wife had only seen her children a handful of times since she walked out on them in 2000.

"They don't refer to her as their mum," he said. "They just call her Caroline.

"When I heard she'd been saying Amber was dead I was shocked but I can't say I was surprised. It hurt me a lot.

"She does it to try and win people's sympathy and wrap them around her fingers."

Mr Brooks claimed he had been left homeless for the past four years, after Mrs Morgan, 35, failed to pay the rent on their home.

"I assumed she had been paying the rent as it had left our bank account, but all the time she'd been keeping it," he said.

"We owed £3,000 in rent arrears and were evicted from our home. Now the housing association refused to help us because they think I knew what she was doing all along. She's left a trail of destruction that we are still clearing up."

He said he had been in contact with Mr Owen, who lives in Chippenham and was also tricked into believing Mrs Morgan had terminal cancer.

"There are so many similarities between what she did to me and Alan, it's unreal," he said.

"She's very, very clever. I don't think the lies will ever stop."

Alan Owen, 48, a worker at the Dyson factory in Malmesbury who drives taxis part time, met Mrs

Morgan when he picked her up from her home in Curlew Drive, Cepen Park North last October.

He said they swapped numbers and she moved into his home the following month, but now he says she owes him thousands of pounds.

"She told me straight away she had been under treatment for terminal cancer for two years and had lost her hair through chemotherapy," he said. "The last thing I thought was that she was lying.

"She led me to believe she needed a liver transplant by the end of January or she wouldn't be here. When January 31 came she told me she was dying and had two weeks left to live, then a couple of weeks on she only had 48 hours.

"I loved her and thought the world of her. She more or less said she wanted to be at home to die. But she kept living past all the deadlines she set herself and that's when I began to get suspicious," Mr Owen said.