Millionaire three cough up after jury gives final answer in probe

AN ARMY major, his wife and a college lecturer were yesterday found guilty of cheating their way to the top prize on the British TV quiz show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?

Disgraced Charles Ingram, 39, tricked game show host Chris Tarrant into signing the million-pound cheque (€1.46m) after using an accomplice’s coded coughs to help select the answers.

His wife Diana and college lecturer Tecwen Whittock, 53, who did the coughing, were also convicted at London’s Southwark Crown Court after almost 14 hours of deliberations over three days.