UK Lottery operator fined for £2.5m payout to convicted rapist with 'fake ticket'

The UK's National Lottery operator Camelot has been fined £3m (€3.5m) by the British gambling watchdog after paying out a £2.5m (€3m) jackpot to a convicted rapist who probably submitted a fake ticket.

The penalty - to be donated to good causes - was handed down by the UK's Gambling Commission after the man claimed the prize with a "deliberately damaged ticket" in a suspected fraud that was not discovered for six years.