Army major: Genuine millionaire or fraudster?

An Army major was either a genuine winner or a fraudster when he left the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? hot seat with the top prize, the jury trying him, his wife and a college lecturer was told today.

Summing up on the 18th day of what he described as a “most unusual case”, Judge Geoffrey Rivlin QC said the Crown’s stance was that he was a cheat who had used an accomplice’s coughs to guide him to the jackpot.