Millionaire jury have more deliberations

Jurors in the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? trial embarked today on the third day of deliberations.

They are trying Major Charles Ingram, who is accused of “cheating his way” to the top prize on the popular TV quiz show, and lecturer Tecwen Whittock, who allegedly used “coded coughs” to signal the right answers to him.

Also in the dock at London’s Southwark Crown Court is the officer’s wife Diana, said by the prosecution to have helped “set up” the scam.

The Ingrams, both 39, of High Street, Easterton, Wiltshire, and Whittock, 53, who lives at Heol-y-Gors, Whitchurch, Cardiff, and is head of business studies at Pontypridd College, south Wales, each deny a single count of “procuring the execution of a valuable security by deception” on September 10, 2001.