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 at the Noël Coward Theatre from 31 March 2018 to 16 June 2018. In court, Ingram claimed the video tape was "unrepresentative of what I heard", and he continues to assert that it was "unfairly manipulated". A video recording, with coughing amplified relative to other sounds including Ingram's and Tarrant's voices, was prepared by Celador's editors (Editworks) for the prosecution and for the "benefit of the jury" during the trial (and later for viewers in television broadcasts). Ingram claims that he neither "listened for, encouraged, nor noticed any coughing". The prosecution alleged that, of the 192 coughs recorded during his