WHO Wants To Be A Millionaire? cheat Charles Ingram, 41, was yesterday given a two year conditional discharge after being convicted of insurance fraud.


Judge Samuel Wiggs told Bournemouth Crown Court that Ingram, of Easterton, Wiltshire, was a man who had already been severely punished as he was on the brink of bankruptcy. Ingram appeared to be on the verge of tears as the sentence was delivered.

A CITY high-flyer was ordered to pay back a &#xA3;250,000 bonus with interest to his former employers after three appeal judges ruled it had been paid by mistake. Last December it was ruled that Gareth Price-Jones, 33, of Hampstead, was entitled to &#xA3;515,000 in bonuses. But his employers Commerzbank won an appeal yesterday.

A POLICE inquiry was under way yesterday after a woman claimed she was held at gunpoint by armed officers in a case of mistaken identity.

Sussex Police have apologised to Philippa Slater after a team of officers hunting a robber challenged her as she returned home. Police said her car was similar to one used by a robbery suspect.

A POLICEMAN was jailed for six months yesterday after admitting having a sexual encounter with a woman who had asked for help claiming she had been raped.

Pc Leigh Harrington, who had been tasked to chaperone the woman, went to her home late at night and performed sex acts on her, the Old Bailey was told.

Harrington, 39, of Thornton Heath, south London, pleaded guilty to misconduct in public office. A charge of indecent assault was not proceeded with.

DAILY Mirror editor Piers Morgan has insisted reports by journalist Ryan Parry, who worked as a footman in the Royal Household, were in the public interest after the Queen won a temporary High Court injunction preventing the newspaper from publishing further revelations. The injunction was granted yesterday until 4.30pm on Monday.

HOLLYWOOD star Gwyneth Paltrow has hinted she wants to marry Coldplay frontman Chris Martin but is waiting for him to pop the question.

The actress, who has been dating the musician for the past year, said she does "hope" to tie the knot. Paltrow was being interviewed for last night's edition of BBC1's Parkinson show.