Ingram found guilty of cheating on Millionaire

Major Charles Ingram and lecturer Tecwen Whittock were today found guilty of cheating their way to the top prize on the TV quiz show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?

The verdicts came after Judge Geoffrey Rivlin QC told the eight women and three men of the jury he would accept majority decisions after three days of deliberations.

The jury at London’s Southwark Crown Court resumed deliberations on the case against the major’s wife Diana.

Major Ingram was found guilty of “cheating his way” to the top prize on the popular TV quiz show.

Lecturer Tecwen Whittock was found guilty of using “coded coughs” to signal the right answers to him.

Diana Ingram was 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 denied a single count of “procuring the execution of a valuable security by deception” on September 10, 2001.