Quiz show cheat may be forced to work as farmhand and live in caravan

THE Army major who cheated his way to the top prize on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? told yesterday how he had lost his home and his job – and could be forced to work as a farmhand living in a caravan.

Charles Ingram said he and his wife, Diana, faced a “bleak, bleak future” after being convicted of setting up a scam to use an accomplice’s coded coughs to signal correct answers on the game show.

In an interview with a Sunday newspaper, the father-of-three also claimed to have been close to suicide.