'Millionaire' Major's debts totalled more than £50,000

An army major and his wife had debts of more than £50,000 (€73,000) when he allegedly “cheated” his way to the top prize on Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, a court heard today.

In addition, a £30,000- (€44,000)-a-year college lecturer accused of using coded coughs to help the officer pocket the seven-figure fortune, owed in excess of £37,000 (€54,000).