Millionaire jury considers verdict
The jury in the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? trial was today continuing to consider its verdicts.
The eight women and four men were resuming their deliberations for a second day after failing to reach verdicts last night.
They are trying to reach a decision on whether Major Charles Ingram cheated his way to the top prize on the popular TV quiz show.
Also in the dock at London’s Southwark Crown Court are lecturer Tecwen Whittock, one of the Fastest Finger First contestants in the same show, who is said to have used a series of pretend coughs to guide the Royal Engineer to the jackpot, and Ingram’s wife Diana, who is accused of helping “set up” the scam.
The Ingrams, both 39, of High Street, Easterton, Wiltshire, and Whittock, 53, of Heol-y-Gors, Whitchurch, Cardiff, who is head of business studies at Pontypridd College, south Wales, each deny one count of “procuring the execution of a valuable security by deception” on September 10, 2001.
The soldier and his nursery nurse wife have both insisted he reached the top prize honestly, while the lecturer has told the court his coughs were genuine and random and had nothing to do with the officer’s answers.
