R v Ingram, C., Ingram, D. and Whittock, T. question, he was waiting for Whittock to cough when "googol" was mentioned; which occurred as he had predicted. Following this, Tarrant was called to the stand and he stated that he hadn't noticed anything amiss during the filming and hadn't heard any coughing. Tarrant said that the Ingrams had been behaving following the win "as normal as people who had just won £1m would be in that situation." He also stated that he would not have signed the cheque if he had had suspicions of Charles cheating and was "shocked" when he heard about the allegations. The floor manager stated
R v Ingram, C., Ingram, D. and Whittock, T. R v Ingram, C., Ingram, D. and Whittock, T. R v Ingram, C., Ingram, D. and Whittock, T. was a 2003 English Crown Court fraud case in which Major Charles Ingram, his wife Diana and college lecturer Tecwen Whittock were found guilty of procuring the execution of a valuable security by deception by cheating on the filming of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" in order to obtain a signed cheque for £1 million. The charge was that Charles Ingram used coughs from his wife and Whittock to guide him to the correct answers in order to win £1 million