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 left when I was observing him, and then he turned towards the set and the hot seat to cough." Whittock remarked during the trial that "you do not cough into someone's face". During the trial, Whittock portrayed himself as a "serial quiz show loser" because he had been eliminated in round one of "15 to 1" and had only won an atlas on his appearance on "Sale of the Century". In late 2003, the Ingrams were again in court, charged with further fraud offences. On 28 October, Charles Ingram was found guilty at Bournemouth Crown Court of obtaining a pecuniary