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
Charles Ingram the charge of fraudulently claiming £30,000 on insurance. The judge told Ingram he took into account "the punishment you have brought upon yourself and your dire financial state", and he rejected an alternative option of a community service order after Ingram told a probation officer he feared other criminals would bully him. The case was covered on a November 2018 episode of "Swindled", a podcast dealing with white-collar crime. Charles Ingram Charles William Ingram (born 1963) is an English former British Army major who became known for cheating on the television game show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" in