Lecturer denies helping quiz contestant cheat

A COLLEGE lecturer told a jury yesterday that he did not help an Army major cheat his way to the top prize on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? because it would have been “silly”.

Tecwen Whittock, who is accused of using coded coughs to guide Major Charles Ingram to the top prize, said such “criminal behaviour” carried with it the “likelihood I could get caught”.

“It would have been a very silly thing to do,” he told London’s Southwark Crown Court.