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It seemed like the perfect crime.

I'm going to play Google.

Yeah.

And for a while, it looked like it might just have worked.

£500 ,000.

You no longer have that.

You've just won one million!

A cool million pinched from under the nose of one of the country's most

stars on IPV1's top game show.

You are the most amazing contestant we have ever, ever had.

And right in front of the television cameras.

Diana, come on down.

Come on, my darling, come on.

Tonight, for the first time, we can show you how they did it and how they got

caught. Fantastic.

We've got the tapes.

I really haven't got a Scoobies.

We've got the witnesses.

I'm saying don't you, don't you dare, you rub dog.

Think it about it.

And we've got the cough.

This is the dramatic story of the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire Major

Fraud.

It's a classic.

tale of greed and obsession, a desperate desire to win the biggest cash prize on

British television by hook or by crook.

It was here in this studio that eight cameras captured every move by the

his wife and their accomplice, while 21 microphones recorded every

single guilty cough.

We've isolated their soundtrack so that you can hear them clearly, just as the

jury did during the trial.

Tonight, we show you the evidence and reveal the major fraud.

For the Ingrams, Millionaire's been a family obsession, with Diana's brother

Adrian the first to get the bug.

A contestant on the show four times, he finally makes it to the hot seat.

Having coasted through ten questions, he comes unstuck at

£64 ,000 and bows out graciously with a cheque for £32 ,000.

We're going with your dad, 50 % hunch.

Yeah, and likely more than 50%, but not much. Final answer.

Yes, final answer.

It's the wrong house.

Adrian, after all this... Oh, no.

It's September in America. It's September in Canada.

Oh, I tell you what, though, it's been great to have you. I've really enjoyed

having you. I'm so pleased to have you here. At last, after over two years of

trying, Adrian Pollock goes back to the Vale of Glamorgan to tell his family

Daddy's got £32 ,000. Give him a big hand.

Little Sisters next on, and with husband Charles Ingram, appears on the couple's

show.

Brian Downes from Somerset.

Now, this is Diana Ingram, a nursery nurse from Swindon, watching at home

husband Charles. A bit of brotherly coaching pays off. Up in the audience is

brother Adrian.

And after some 300 phone calls to the show, Diana Ingram's in the hot seat at

last.

Have a look at question number 11. It's for £64 ,000. This would take you one

correct answer and £32 ,000 past the total your brother got. And you have got

lifeline. Have a look. This is question number 11. You might as well play it,

whatever. You can't lose on this. You've got £32 ,000.

Who wrote the nonsense poem The Hunting of the Snark?

G .K.

Chesterton.

Hilaire Belloc.

Edward Lear.

Lewis Carroll.

Well...

I thought it was Edward Lear before they all came up.

Yes. And now Lewis Carroll's come up, and he might have written it too.

She equals her brother's performance.

I'm going to play Edward Lear, final answer, yes. Edward Lear, final answer.

Yes.

You had £32 ,000.

You kept back one lifeline. You desperately wanted to beat your brother.

You've stayed in exactly the same place as your brother. You're still on £32

,000. And falls somewhat less graciously at the same hurdle. Who was fastest?

Charles Ingram!

Finally,

after two failed attempts, Charles Ingram makes it to the hot seat.

The most infamous episode of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire is about to begin.

I really warned him, yeah. He had this terrible peer pressure in that his

brother -in -law... and his wife both had won £32 ,000.

They were both quite sort of... They seemed to be quite obsessed with the

and getting on it and doing well. They both had got on it and done well.

I mean, she went away very disappointed with £32 ,000. I remember talking to her

in the bar afterwards, and I said, great, congratulations. She said, only

,000. And I said to her, it's a huge amount of money. She went, yes, but I

should have done more. I should have beaten my brother and all this.

15 questions, three lifelines.

He gives me all 15 correct answers. He wins £1 million.

Let's play Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

OK, Charles, question number one for £100. Here it is.

On which of these would you air laundry?

Clothes dog.

Clothes horse.

Clothes rabbit.

Clothes pig.

That's a clothes call.

It's the right answer. You've got £100.

The first few questions are easy enough for the major.

It's a word.

OK, you've got £100.

Question number two for £200. Here it is.

What name is given to a person who is against increasing the powers of the

European Union?

Eurosceptic.

Eurostar.

Eurotrash. Eurovision.

Eurosceptic. Right answer, £200.

OK, number three is worth £300. Here it comes.

What is butterscotch?

Shortbread.

Pavement game.

Garden flower.

Brittle toffee.

But some staff are concerned as soon as the major takes the hot seat.

Right answer, you've got £300.

Diana Ingram's younger brother, Marcus Powell, is also at the studio.

Just after recording had started, probably about 15, 20 minutes into it

and he was outside the studio on his mobile phone, which mobile phones aren't

allowed in the studio area.

So I went up to the production office, where I'm full Chris Burke.

I just approached him and said, excuse me, I can't have you in and out of the

studio using the phone.

If you want to make a phone call, I can get someone to escort you off -site and

you can make as many phone calls as you wish or would you please go back in the

studio, take your seat.

When I went back downstairs about 10, 15 minutes later, he was back outside on

his mobile again and as soon as he saw me, he went straight back in to the

studio. At which point I asked one of our security guards to keep an eye on

for the rest of the recording.

And to the best of my knowledge, that's exactly what he did.

Police believe four vibrating phone pages could have signalled the right

I think that the question and the options would have been transmitted via

Powell's open mobile phone.

within the VIP area, I believe that the person on the other end, with access to

research material, could then signal the wearer of those pages with the correct

answer, A, B, C or D, depending on what part of the body the page was secreted.

And then that person could either signal Charles Ingram, or indeed Charles

Ingram may have been wearing the pages himself.

Marcus Powell's never been charged with any offence.

So for now, Charles Ingram's on his own, and the £500 question's one he's bound

to get right.

Question number four, then, for 500 quid. No problem so far. Here it is.

Which of these is the nickname for a famous Scottish army regiment? You're

getting this wrong.

Embarrassing to get it wrong, though, Charles Major. Which of these is the

nickname for a famous Scottish army regiment?

Black Cat.

I think you're going to know this. Black Widow.

Black Fee.

Black Watch.

Black Watch, Chris.

Not Black Widow.

No, definitely not. Black cat?

It's a right answer. You've got £500.

Question five.

The last time the Major can go home with nothing.

The Normans, who invaded and conquered England in 1066, spoke which language?

German.

Norwegian. French.

Danish.

The Normans. But he's no intention of leaving empty -handed.

No, I'll go with French.

Final answer? Yeah, final answer.

It's the right answer. You've got £1 ,000.

On the next question, he's struggling and there's no one to help. Too much

knowledge. Remember the family honour, Charles.

Absolutely.

Right, you've got £1 ,000.

You've still got all your lifelines. You've got 50 -50, phone a friend and

this audience.

Have a look at number six. It's worth £2 ,000.

I bet you know this one.

In Coronation Street.

Who is... I bet you don't. Who is... When have you last seen Coronation

I've never watched it. I mean, I've seen it sort of in the telly and... Just

been on for 40 years.

I know.

Sorry. OK, have a look at it. Have a look at it, work out what you want to

In Coronation Street, who is Audrey's daughter?

Janice.

Gail.

Linda.

Sally.

I really haven't got a Scoobies.

Now, you've got the audience.

You can ask the audience.

You can point a friend.

You can go 50 -50.

I'm not sure.

50 -50, probably if you've got two left and you've still never heard of either

of them, might not be much use.

You've got a pen and a pen?

You can ask the audience.

Chris, I'd like to ask the audience.

OK, audience, let's see if you're up on your soaps. We had Coronation Street

here only a couple of weeks ago, who raised well over £100 ,000 for charity.

Let's see if you know all about them. In Coronation Street, this is the

question. In Coronation Street, who is Audrey's daughter?

Now, A on your keypad is Janice. B is Gail.

C is Linda, D is Sally. A, B, C or D.

All vote now.

He's using a lifeline far too early in the game.

Oh, thank you.

Right.

89 % are saying go.

3 % Linda, 4 % Sally, 4 % Janice. It's quite high, it's very high, but it's

call. It's a tricky one.

Embarrassing that it's wrong. Oh, that guy would, yeah.

But it wouldn't be my fault at home and work, so I'll go for... I'll follow the

audience, please. I can't remember what they said. I think it was Gail.

It said Gail, yeah. Gail, OK.

I'll run with Gail, yeah.

Even though you've never heard of her? Never heard of her. Or seen her? No,

afraid not. Sorry, Gail, but I haven't.

OK, final answer. I'll go with Gail, yeah.

We got there. £2 ,000.

And the next question is also a struggle.

Have a look at number seven.

We're getting up there. This is for £4 ,000. You're nine away from a million.

Have a look.

The River Foyle is found in which part of the United Kingdom?

England. Scotland.

Northern Ireland.

Wales.

What are you thinking?

I'm thinking I've never heard of it.

With just £2 ,000 in the pot...

Charles Ingram's having to use his second lifeline.

Well, the lifelines are there to help. I think... I think I'll phone a friend,

please. OK.

Who are you going to phone?

Gerald. Gerald, tell him the question, four possible answers.

See what he comes up with. You still want a 50 -50 if you need it later.

You can walk away with two thousand.

OK. Where's Gerald?

That way.

He wasn't the finest contestant we've ever had. He was struggling quite a bit,

actually. So he got up to £4 ,000 by the end of the first night and used two

lifelines.

So we knew he was coming back the following evening, but expected him to

just a couple of questions or so and then be gone.

Final answer. Final answer.

It's the right answer. You got £4 ,000.

Yes,

I had £4 ,000.

OK, Charles has got... Ah!

God, no.

Oh, God, no! As the rollover contestant, Charles Ingram has a few precious

hours to come up with a plan.

He'll clearly struggle on his own.

If you lose two lifelines, one lifeline left, you've struggled to that point,

you know, you might be going home with 16 ,000, maybe 32.

there's no way that you'd expect him to stay there for very much more than two

or three questions, unless, you know, an incredibly lucky run of questions. But,

you know, having sat through many hundreds of programmes, that wouldn't be

you'd expect to happen, really.

He floundered through, but I think he had one lifeline left.

And I remember us saying, God, that poor bloody Major, you know, he's got as

much chance of getting the 32 ,000, you know, as going to the moon in a rocket.

I mean, there was just no way this guy could possibly go much further.

And I could see his wife sort of sitting up there behind him sort of frowning at

him. I thought, oh, God, and he's got his little girls and his promising

and all this.

OK, fingers crossed for next time. Earlier on tonight... But there's an

saviour on the way.

Army Major Charles Ingram here at the moment. He's on £4 ,000. For the good

news, he still has one lifeline remaining.

We're back Tuesday night. Let's see who'll be joining us then.

Maurice Braun, Techwin Whittock, John Norton. That night, the Ingrams call

Techwin Whittock, another millionaire regular.

And it's at this point he joins their scam.

The major fraud.

is about to begin.

As the show begins again the next day, Charles Ingram and his co

-conspirators have got a new plan to cheat, as it's going to work better than

any of them dared imagine.

Hello, welcome to Tuesday's Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? We kick off tonight

with a contestant returning from Saturday.

Charles Ingram is here in the hot seat, a position he may well have been in

before. Because you're a military man. Indeed. Morning, Major. Morning, Paul T.

Have you got a strategy?

Well, I have, actually. I have got a strategy. I was a bit defensive on the

show. You know, I sort of started talking myself out of answers that,

should have known and did know.

So this time I'm going on the counter -attack and I'm going to... We're going

the counter -attack tonight, everybody. And I'm going to be a bit more positive.

Well, basically it means I'm going to show a bit more self -commitment. If I

feel I know the answer, I'm going to go for it. You'll blow the lot then,

Charles. Well, you only get in the chair once, don't you? So you might as well

make the most of it. In court, Diana Ingram claimed she'd never met Tecwin

Whittock or even knew what he looked like.

Yet throughout the night, she's caught on camera apparently looking straight at

him.

Sat right behind the major with the other fastest finger first contestant,

Wittek's been strangely quiet during the day.

I think he'd been on three times at least before.

And he was an old millionaire hand and we were new.

Did he strike you as a determined contestant?

He struck me as being very focused, so he wasn't in a chatty mood, I have to

say.

Perfectly polite and pleasant, but I think he was focused on the evening in

front of him. Charles Ingram, Major Charles, is here in the studio playing

real. Now, right now, he's got eight questions to go until the million. He's

still got one lifeline intact.

He's got that 50 -50.

Charles, what's your luck tonight? Let's play Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?

First question of the night, and they're cheating from the off.

Right, this is where we put the strategy to the test, then.

You've got £4 ,000, OK?

You can obviously walk away with that at the top of the show and do a runner,

but I know you're itching to get up a bit further. Let's have a look at

number eight. You've got a 50 -50.

This would bring you £8 ,000 if you gave me the right answer. Here it is.

Who was the second husband of Jacqueline Kennedy?

Who was the second husband of Jacqueline Kennedy?

Adnan Khashoggi.

Ronald Reagan.

Aristotle Anathis.

Rupert Murdoch.

Right, OK.

I'm not certain. It's the first chance to test out their secret weapon. I would

have thought... I would have thought that it would be Aristotle and Athens.

That cough from Tequin Whittock. You're hearing it in isolation as the jury did,

much clearer than it would sound in any broadcast.

And that's the plan, to cough... after Ingram reads out the right answers ...

and Jacqueline Kennedy wasn't mentioned so ... Adnan Katahogi ...

doesn't ring any bells at all Aristotle in

Athens rings a bell or two the Major seeks further confirmation from his

accomplice

One of my sub -strategies is to take my time. Oh, you've got a sub -strategy as

well? Absolutely, I've got a sub -strategy. Okay.

So I'll just rethink this one for a moment. I'm pretty confident it's

and Athens.

And after that, Ingram's completely confident.

Yeah, I'm going to go for Aristotle and Athens.

You're a wild and crazy man, Major.

Final answer? You only live once.

Yeah, final answer.

Still very happy with the strategy?

No, but it's too late.

It's right out there.

My attention was first drawn to Major Ingram at around the £8 ,000 question

our floor assistant said to me, there's something strange going on.

And that was really the first time that I'd focused at what was going on on the

set. You've got £8 ,000.

You've still kept that lifeline, 50 -50. You're two away from an important

milestone of £32 ,000. And it's actually important in more ways than one. Let's

have a look, though, at question number nine first.

Emmental is achieved from which country?

France.

Italy. Netherlands.

Switzerland. This is the only time all night the Major gets the right answer

without a little help from his friend.

Right, counter -attack. Think counter -attack. I'd like to go for Switzerland,

but I need to just think about it for a moment.

When you're up here, you've got a doubt that's multiplied tenfold.

I think it's Switzerland.

You've got a 50 -50 if it helps.

Again, he lifts the other answer just in case, but there's no need for a cough

from Whittock.

It could be France, I suppose.

Then again, it could be Italy.

Or maybe it's the Netherlands.

Right. Yeah.

That's sort of how the question works, Charles. No, I get it.

You've got a 50 -50 if it helps you.

Just trying. It's worth 16 ,000. You lose 7 ,000 if you give me a wrong

and the girls will be back to three on a pony.

So, no cough.

A hundred times, Emmental.

I'm sure it's Switzerland.

The major knows he's right.

Yeah, from Switzerland.

Final answer.

Yeah, final answer.

Why did you think it was Switzerland?

Well, I just recall Emmental coming from Switzerland.

I've eaten it a lot.

I'm sure it had made in Switzerland or something written on it.

Swiss made.

Yes. I don't know what your strategy and sub -strategy is, but it's working.

You've just got £16 ,000.

Even without the cost, his habit of reading all the answers set Fantenai

twitching. The acoustics within what I call the bowl of the studio are such

the sound is pretty much kept within it. And I was watching a monitor just on

the other side. So at this point there was absolutely no suggestion of any

coughing or any noises whatsoever.

This was just simply me now focused on the monitor, but kind of removed from

production of the programme.

I'd become so suspicious.

that something untoward was going on, that I then said to our floor manager

I wanted to find out whether we could search Major Ingram when he came off the

set.

My boss, Adrian Wolfe, came running across the studio when it in itself was

sight, and he said, we have a problem.

And I didn't know what quite he meant, but having then been told that he

believed there was something funny going on, With the contestant in the hot

seat, we then concentrated on that, and I was by a monitor, so I was able to see

the way the man was playing the game, and also I was able to stand behind the

cameras looking directly at him and see for myself that it was unusual, if not

completely strange, the way he was attempting to answer the questions and

way he finally chose an answer.

It was well out of any understanding or experience I'd ever had.

£32 ,000, the third question of the night and a critical moment in the major

fraud. Have a look, this is it.

Who had a hit UK album with Born To Do It, released in 2000?

Coldplay, Top Loader, A1, Craig David.

I'm afraid.

Born to do it.

I vaguely recall it. I'm sure I've heard of the title.

But I don't honestly know for sure.

Disaster. The Major doesn't know the answer. And neither does Whittock. The

plan's out the window.

I think, I think, I think it's day one.

It's not.

You've got a 50 -50.

Craig David, I can't, I don't think, I've never heard of Craig David, to be

honest. Does wife Diana Ingram know he's wrong?

Coldplay I've never heard of.

And Top Loader is a, well, it's part of a rifle, so I don't think it's that.

Good for Brazil.

Is it? All right, well, thank you for that.

Is that another anxious look to Techwin Whittock?

Sadly, I'll have to take 50 -50. Sadly, that's what they're for.

Right, computer, take away two wrong answers. Leave Charles the right answer

one other wrong answer.

And again,

it seems she's looking to Whittock.

The two answers left were Craig David, who he admitted to have never heard of,

and A1...

who he had been gunning for all along, and when those two answers were left, he

said, well, that doesn't give me any help, which, hang on a second, you've

saying A1 all along, and you didn't know Craig David, so why haven't you now

gone, it must be A1 then?

So, no, the man was playing a different game to anything I've ever seen.

I think it's A1.

The Major's set on the wrong answer and needs help, but there's none coming from

Whittock.

I've just never heard of Craig David.

Trust me, he does exist.

He's quite well known.

Unaware her every move's recorded, it looks like Diana Ingram's preparing to

help out.

If so, she's taking a massive gamble.

Who had a hit UK album with Born To Do It released in 2000?

A1 and Craig David.

How old are your daughters?

11, 9 and 6.

They'll all know this. They probably will.

They will. They'll be at home screaming the answer now.

His wife seems to check the studio television.

Diana Ingram's not on screen, but the cameras are still rolling.

You've got £16 ,000.

I think I'll go for £8 ,000.

It's up to you. I can't influence your judgment at all.

You're only getting the chair one.

She seems unable to hide her frustration.

She must know he's wrong.

Well, you are if you haven't got a clue, but it's up to you.

One of those is worth 32 ,000. One of them would cost you 15 ,000.

It's the second answer. He won.

He won.

He won, I'll pray, David.

Diana coughed twice.

Is that a clue?

I'm going to go for A1.

Has he heard her? Maybe not.

Final answer.

No.

Are we on the main strategy or the sub -strategy? I've got a lot to plot here

your campaign. A lot of money to lose.

You can take 16 ,000.

It seems he's heard all right.

Here comes the U -turn.

I'm 80 % of the time I'm wrong when I guess.

No, I'll go Craig David.

Yeah.

Final answer. I'm going to guess Craig David.

Final answer.

But his wife's been spotted and the Ingrams are in trouble.

We'll take a break. Join us again at the second part of tonight. Who wants to be

a millionaire? Don't go away.

On the £32 ,000 question, it looks like Diana's

taken a massive gamble to help her husband.

But she'd been spotted.

Mrs Ingram developed quite a nasty cough on that particular question.

The major seemed to be struggling to answer it.

And there was enough concern for production to decide that they needed to

the recording, to rewind the tape, to look back at it.

So even at that stage...

Third question in, on the night, the recording is stopped because there's

concerned suspicion?

Yes. Yes, there was some cause for concern.

But not enough.

The team let the show continue, and no -one's yet spotted Whittock.

Welcome back to the second parlour tonight. Who wants to be a millionaire

Tuesday night?

There was something in the air that was all a bit strange, and when I did come

down to the studio, the crew, some of them were just sort of shaking their

heads, going, something's definitely...

Going on. Just before the break, Major Charles Ingram here was on £16 ,000.

He said his own words. He'd never heard of Craig David.

He used a 50 -50, cold play and top loader went. He then went for a one.

Then because... I actually rather lost the plot of his thinking then, but

basically because he reckons most of his guesses are 80 % wrong, he changed his

mind, knowing he'd lose £15 ,000 if he gave him the wrong answer.

and went for Craig David, who he'd never heard of.

You just won £32 ,000.

How you did that, I have no idea, Bill.

Brilliant.

But your strategy and your sub -strategy, it somehow worked. I have no

you got to choose a man who brought the money at stake.

Who you'd never heard of?

Neither have I. I don't think I'll be doing that again.

A few of the millionaire team know something's wrong, but can't quite work

what. He would make some humorous comment about each answer, how it

that because he didn't know it, or it wasn't that, or he was certain it wasn't

that. But he was doing that to all of them.

And then finally, plumping for an answer that he disregarded three

efforts ago or three mentions before.

And so it was very odd. It wasn't the way anybody has ever played the game

before or since in any of the territories in the experience I've had.

You've never seen anything like this anywhere in the world? No, not at all,

This was not a gambler's way of playing. It wasn't somebody who knew the answer.

There was no smile of recognition when an answer came up when you can see

somebody knows the answer beforehand.

You've got your way up to that, £32 ,000.

I don't want to give you that, but you've got that, basically.

Do you want to hold it yourself?

I'd like to hold it, yes, please.

My wife didn't hold it, and she blew out at £32 ,000.

This is interesting, because your wife is sitting up there in the audience,

shaking her head, because she doesn't understand how you got to £32 ,000

No, neither do I. She was on the show quite a long time back now. She also got

to £32 ,000.

Now, you said when you came on, whatever happens somehow, I have to get the same

amount as my wife.

Yeah. And you frankly didn't believe you would do it, did you? I didn't, no. And

frankly, Charles, nor did I.

He's equaled his wife's win, but the three cheats have their eyes on a much

bigger prize.

Wouldn't it be a jolly wheezer if you got more than your wife?

Would that cause a certain amount of friction?

Yeah,

probably, actually.

He's doing that shaking head, but the eyes are saying, yeah.

And the boss again glances towards the hired help.

My reading of him was that he was a sort of a mad major.

You know, brave.

Brave is a lion, but completely balmy.

You know, probably a bit thick, but very, you know, Tim but nice sort of

I mean, dim but nice. And I thought he was like that.

I mean, he was extraordinary to be opposite. I mean, he was amazing to be

opposite. He was fascinating.

Question number 11. You might as well play this. You've got no lifelines, but

you can't lose on this. You've got 32 ,000 anyway.

Have a look at question number 11. It's worth 64 ,000.

You might as well play it. Here it is.

Gentlemen versus players was an annual match between amateurs and professionals

of which sport?

The three conspirators are now playing for serious money.

Of which sport? Lawn tennis, rugby union, polo, cricket.

Now, it's worth £64 ,000.

I mean, it could be any of them, really.

But I think it's cricket.

But I'm not sure.

And the cough from Whittock lets him know he's right.

A picture, a print on either cigarette cards or, you know, the old cigarette

cards you used to get. Or my, I don't know, grandfather's dirty wall or

something. Gentlemen versus players.

But I'm not sure.

And that was a cricket? They were playing cricket?

I think so.

Lawn tennis, rugby union, polo, cricket.

I think it might be cricket.

It's worth 64 ,000. You might as well play it. Indeed.

Take your time. Have a good look.

It could be lawn tennis. It might have been lawn tennis.

Maybe it was polo.

I'm doing this again. Sorry.

As the two men become more confident in their system, the coughs become more

frequent.

I don't think it's rugby union.

I don't think it's lawn tennis.

Again, Mrs Ingram looked towards Whittock.

Polo, polo.

No, I just don't recall any connection, but I've heard of it, definitely, but I

don't remember any connection with polo, so I'm... I think if I had to guess,

and I can, I'd take cricket.

The ever -helpful Whittock, just ten feet away, is there again.

It's not fair on everyone else. I'll go for cricket.

It doesn't matter about everybody else. They'll play anyway, don't worry.

You going to play? Final answer. Cricket. Cricket. Final answer.

You got £32 ,000.

Your wife came and she won £32 ,000.

You just won £64 ,000.

Whoa!

For a man who'd never ever heard of Craig David, you've done pretty well.

look at that one. Take that one.

64. You're shaking. Major, you're shaking, Major.

No good in the firepipe, Major. You're shaking.

No wonder he's shaking.

Charles Ingram carrying out major fraud in front of a live studio audience.

But Whittock's coughing is now drawing attention.

After probably about five, ten minutes, he seems to be coughing all the time.

It's strange because he didn't cough before the show.

Even those who haven't noticed the coughing smell a rat.

Relatively early on, halfway through, I thought there might be something dodgy

going on.

So what I did was I looked at his face. I assumed that it was going to be a

visual clue of some sort, a visual code. So he would have a member of the

audience somewhere in his eyeline.

that would be giving him some subtle coded indication.

A wink?

Like, not a wink. I mean, it's, you know, remember, it's there in the light.

audience is in half light.

So, you know, it would be, you know, like that for A or that for B or

fairly subtle.

So question after question, I was looking, I was locked onto his face.

But I couldn't detect anything that was... He didn't seem to be

looking at the crowd.

But even during the recording, even during the game, you were pretty sure

something untoward was going on. You were that convinced?

Yeah, absolutely.

I said to Marilyn and she felt the same.

Now, you've got £64 ,000.

Next one would be for £125 ,000.

Obviously, you've got no lifelines left.

and you would drop £32 ,000 if you gave me a wrong answer. You clearly do not

have to play this question, but you might like the look of it. Have a look

it. It's number 12 of the possible 15.

The Ambassadors in the National Gallery is a painting by which artist?

Van Eyck, Holbein, Michelangelo, Rembrandt.

It's worth £125 ,000.

The pressure's rising as the money goes up.

Just five coughs. so far from tegwin wittock but all subtlety will soon

disappear as greed takes over

look

at the check good luck you can walk away with that check but have a good look at

this question have you got um well i i think it's either holbein or rembrandt i

have seen it um

I think it was Holbein.

Here it comes.

Another guilty cough from Whittock.

Diana Ingram seems nervous. I'm sure it was Holbein. I'm sure it was Holbein.

Oh, damn it.

She looked towards Tecwin Whittock.

You've got £64 ,000. You've got no lifelines. You can walk away with that

money.

Down payment on a house.

Yeah, I think I'm going to go for Holbein.

Yeah, Holbein.

There's no longer a decent pause between the cough and Ingram choosing his

answer.

Holbein, yeah.

Holbein.

You just won £125 ,000!

The team believe that to escape scot -free with the cash, this is when

Ingram should take the money and run. You seem struggling more at £200 ,000

you are now.

I think that they've bailed out £125 ,000. I don't think any of us will be

here. I think it's just pushed that little bit too far.

And as I've said, every step of the way up, there's more evidence that you've

got to argue away one way or another.

And it may well be easier to argue away three questions with a cough.

You know, when you're talking about 17, 18 persistent coughs at specific points

that appear to be leading somebody, I think you back yourself into a corner.

But the two men can't resist temptation.

It's to be the undoing of all of them.

I think it was when it was getting on to sort of serious money, probably when we

sort of got to one, two, five, I think that's probably when, you know, I mean,

definitely thought something very strange was going on.

You're seeing something happen in front of you. You think that there might be

collusion going on. You think there might be cheating going on.

You're not 100 % sure.

It's difficult. It certainly is not my call to stop the programme.

It had been stopped once already.

I was alerted by the sound supervisor, Kevin Duff, and by our director to

out because on the microphone they could hear some coughing going on.

And obviously in the studio there's always spluttering and bits of coughing

going on, but this seemed more systematic, so I listened out.

And I was directed to look in the audience, but I soon realised that it

actually coming from another contestant.

When you hear the coughs which are adjacent to the right answers, when you

hear them, you're looking to see if the pattern stays, if it's a pattern that's

going to be repeated and sustained throughout the series of questions.

But after a while, when it is, your reaction on hearing it is one of humour.

mean, you start to laugh, really. When the coughs come up right on cue, you

think, gosh, there it is again.

Have a look at number 13. It is worth a quarter of a million.

If you give me a wrong answer to this question, if you decide to play it, you

don't have to, you've got no lifelines, you would lose £93 ,000, which is fairly

sobering. But... Chris Tarrant clearly reminding the Major, who, with his wife,

has debts of more than £50 ,000, that the stakes are high.

It's a thing I do a lot. I sort of repeat it as the money goes up and up

And with the Major, I constantly seem to be bringing him back to earth.

And you'd see him go...

Yes, right.

Yes, thanks for that. Anyway, ignore all that and carry on.

The next question would form a key part of the prosecution case at their trial.

This is for £250 ,000.

What type of garment is an Anthony Eden?

Overcoat. Hat.

Shoe.

Tie. Taquin Whittock is caught on tape getting the answer.

from his unsuspecting neighbour.

Armed with the answer, Whittock's ready for

action. I think it's a hat.

I mean, again, you know, I'm not sure, but I think it's a hat. I think it's one

of those really sort of tall hats that sort of came into fashion, presumably

when he was Prime Minister.

To cough, and he's not finished yet.

Oh, dear.

Well, this is the famous hat question, of course. What type of garment is an

Antony Eden? And here we've got Chris Parent going through the various

possibilities. An overcoat, a shoe, a hat.

of course, which is the right answer, are a tie.

And what we hear at the same time as this is conversation among the FFF

contestants where one man with a Cockney accent, Mr Lucy, Thomas Lucy, in fact,

confirms that it is a hat.

Just after he confirms it's a hat, you hear Ingram say to Tarrant, I think it's

a hat, and, of course, Wittig's there right on cue.

that his unwitting helper remembers things differently.

A question had been asked, and the answer had been given, and as I turned

to look towards my son,

Techwin Whithook said to me, did you know that answer? And I said, yes, I

Why do you think he asked you that question?

I don't know. I think it was probably just because I turned round and I was

of looking his way, just for something to say.

It's worth £250 ,000.

He continued his private conversation with Whittock.

I'm sure it's a hat.

Am I sure?

Well, are you sure now?

Yeah, a hat.

It's a hat.

You lose £93 ,000 if you're wrong, Todd. No, I'm going for a hat.

Final answer? Yep, final answer.

You just won £250 ,000. Three coughs in the one question.

Tecwin Whittock and Charles Ingram are overdoing things.

It's water of a million!

It's easy for me to realise that it was Tecwin doing the coughing because he was

only about 10 or 15 feet away from me, directly in front of me, and the way he

was coughing was rather bizarre.

He was actually turning towards the set to cough, so at one point he was

chatting to the contestant to his left.

in a whispered way, and then he'd turn round a full 90 degrees with his head,

cough towards the hot seat, and then turn away again.

But Whittock's about to risk everything as the Major nearly blows the lot.

You've got a quarter of a million.

It sounds strange. You've got a quarter of a million.

The next question is worth £500 ,000.

As Chris Tarrant asks the penultimate question, Charles Ingram suddenly makes

big mistake.

Have a look at question 14.

Baron Haussmann is best known for his planning of which city?

Rome, Paris, Berlin, Athens.

I think it's Berlin.

It's not, I think.

Charles, ten minutes ago you thought it was A1.

I think, I think it's Berlin.

Next time, it's worth half a million. It's a huge amount of money to win. It's

also a huge amount of money to drop. More a German name than an Italian name.

Parisian name and Athens name.

He quickly rules out the other option.

It's sort of likely to be at home. I'm really not sure.

I'm never sure.

If I was at home, I'd be saying Berlin if I was watching this on TV.

He forgets the system and fails to check slowly around the answers.

It's worth £500 ,000.

You've dropped 218 ,000. You've got a quarter of a million. It's your call.

as long as you need.

Baron Haussmann is best known for his planning of which city?

Rome, Paris, Berlin, Athens.

He's giving Withock no opportunity to help.

I think it's Berlin.

Pequin Withock risked everything.

And he's going for Berlin, you can hear he's going for Berlin, and then all of a

sudden you hear a cough, which is now acknowledged to be from Wittig, which

Cough! No!

Cough!

No! And the no is partly in whisper, but it's a loud no like that. When I say

partly in whisper, it's not no, it's no!

And it comes right on the heels of the cough.

Cough! No! So, in a way, what the cough is doing there, what Mr Wittig's doing

there, is breaking the code, the agreed code, But he can only do that by putting

a no there with his cough.

Otherwise, Ingram would interpret the cough as meaning Berlin is the right

answer.

Moments later, is this a new signal?

The effect of the nose blow seems immediate.

There's a cough, there's a no, and then just after that, there's a little series

of nose blowing as well. The nose blowing only ever happened at that

and it's only my subjective opinion, but I think if you've got a system, you've

got to have an all -stop signal, because otherwise you could end up in a

very difficult position, and I think that was probably part of their all

signal. The all -stop was the nose -blowing? I think so.

And, of course, the word no.

Well, that helps.

I don't think it's Paris.

Just as he's dismissing Paris, Tecwin Whittock's cough stops him mid

I don't think it's Athens.

I'm sure it's not Rome.

He was convinced that it was Berlin, prompted by the fact that he believed

Bornhausmann was a German name, and kept focusing on Berlin.

He went on and on and on about Berlin.

then he says something defective, but it could be Paris, and then gets a cough.

Now, he freezes. He just, he freezes for the moment.

He obviously completely regains his thoughts, because I think that he is

relatively convinced himself that it is, the answer is Berlin.

I'm sure it's not Rome.

Ingram now makes another U -turn. I'd have thought it's Berlin, but there's a

chance it's Paris. I'm not sure.

I've got to think.

Think, think, think.

I've read this.

I think it's Berlin.

Is that the all -stop signal again?

Diana stares in Wittek's direction.

Could be Paris.

They're pushing their luck.

A fastest finger first contestant about to link the major's answers to

Whittock's cough.

It suddenly occurred to me that this bloke's being helped out here.

And as soon as I have that thought, almost as soon... ..it's the bloke who's

coughing. You know, this is what's going on in my mind. It wasn't a long

process, it was almost immediate.

It's the bloke who's coughing.

You know, is he sending him signals? So I've immediately alighted on Tequim

Wittig. And during the course of that question, lo and behold, he does come

right round the houses, goes for the answer that he originally discarded, and

Tequim Wittig did cough in the right place.

I think it is Paris.

Yeah, I'm going to play.

Ingram responds to the cough immediately. Hang on, now, where are we?

Don't worry, I'm talking to myself as we get on.

Right. You've got £250 ,000.

Yeah. You've got no lifelines. Yeah.

If you give me a wrong answer... You've still got £32 ,000. That's guaranteed.

Whatever.

If you give me a wrong answer here, you've got £218 ,000 lost.

You lose £218 ,000.

If you give me a right answer, it's worth half a million. You don't have to

play.

OK. This is the question. Baron Houseman is best known for his planning of which

city? Rome, Paris, Berlin or Athens. It's worth half a million pounds.

Charles Ingram checks for a fourth and final time.

It's either Berlin or Paris.

And I think it's Paris.

Hugh Whittock.

Yeah, I'm going to play. I'm going to play. I'm going to play Paris.

You were convinced it was Berlin.

I know. I know. I think I was wrong. I'm going to go for Paris.

Final answer. Final answer.

You had £250 ,000. You did not need to play this question.

You thought it was Berlin, Berlin, Berlin.

You changed your mind to Paris.

That brought you £500 ,000. Yes!

The Major clearly delighted after so nearly blowing it all on Berlin.

It takes four guilty pops from Tequin Whippet to get him there.

Yet still, most of the audience and the man sat opposite him are unaware he's

cheating.

Unbelievable.

I had no idea of anything going on at all.

To be honest, once it gets up to the big money, I've got, like, a very, very

concentrated job to do.

So really, short of somebody, you know, sending up smoke signals or lighting a

bonfire in the audience, I mean, I would not pick anything up normally.

I mean, I'm this close to someone, I'm eyeball to eyeball.

So, no, I'm not aware of anything at all. And I was genuinely amazed when I

off air that there was murmurings and suspicion that something might have

happened that night that was illegal.

Right.

Are you all right?

No. Definitely not.

That's the reality of what you've done.

£500 ,000.

Take it.

The cheating majors still in the hot seat.

He's risking everything to win his million. Probably just about the whole

United Kingdom. We're going to look at the million -pound question, which we

haven't done very often since we started three years ago.

You don't have to play this question. I think you know the routine by now, but

let me make sure you're absolutely aware and clear of your situation. You've got

£500 ,000.

Question number 15, if you go for it.

and give me the right answer, you win £1 million.

You'll be the third person in Britain to win the million since we came on air.

If you go for it and give me a wrong answer, Charles, you lose £468 ,000.

Yeah, OK.

OK, you're guaranteed £32 ,000. That's a long time ago now. Question number 10.

We're about to look at question number 15. You do not have to play this

question. It's worth £1 million.

You've got £500 ,000. This is it.

Question number 15 of 15 on who wants to be a millionaire.

And number one, followed by 100 zeros, is known by what

name?

Google.

Megatron.

Gigabit.

Nanomole.

It's worth a million.

The chief are about to be rumbled.

I'm entirely focused on Tecwen Wittig.

He's sitting over there in the third. He's sitting over there at seat three.

I know what the answer to the question is before the four answers come up.

So I can really study the process between these two people.

Mega nano.

It seems his wife can't believe he's playing on. I'm not sure.

However... Charles, you haven't been sure since question number two.

The mood in the production office is strangely flat.

Normally I probably would be quite excited that, you know, one of my

has won a lot of money.

But because I...

I had some doubt in my mind that something strange was going on. I don't

could really sort of get enthusiastic about it, really.

You've got £500 ,000 in your hand. Nobody at all would blame you to walk

with that amount of money. It's a huge check.

If you give me a wrong answer, you lose £468 ,000.

You plunge back to £32 ,000.

It is worth £1 million.

A number one followed by 100 zeros is known by what name?

Google.

Megatron.

Gigabit.

Nanomole. It's worth one million pounds sterling. And again, the major checks

round the answers.

One by one.

I think it's a nanomole.

But it could be a gigabit. And once again, if you listen carefully, the

reveal Techwin Whittock checking the answer.

Huh? I'm not sure I can get it.

God.

I don't think it's a Megatron.

Whittock now has the million -pound answer.

And I have to say, I haven't... I don't think I've heard of a Google.

But Whittaker... Google.

I'm waiting for Tecwen Whittaker to cough at precisely the moment that the

mentions the word Google.

And the first time he mentions the word Google, cough, cough, gotcha.

I'm also thinking during that process, which is almost completely the opposite

of that, I'm thinking, don't you, don't you dare, don't you dare, I love you.

I'm thinking that at the same time as I'm thinking, I want you to cough,

I want this, I want to know that I'm right in what I've been, in my

Google, Google, Google.

By process of elimination, I actually think it's Google, but I don't know what

Google is.

That's sort of how we got to Craig David.

He went for it because you'd never ever heard of him.

I don't think it's gigabit. I don't think it's nanomole.

I don't think it's Megatron. He revisits all four to check the answer with

Wittek a second time.

I really do think it's a Google.

You thought it was a nanomole.

As Wittek coughs, it seems he's again under the watchful eye of the Major's

wife. It's not a gigabit, nanomole, or Megatron. There's only four of them, so

it must be Google.

Um, wasn't it?

I don't actually know where Google is, but... No wonder she seems worried.

I mean, it's the only chance I'll ever have of winning a million.

Charles, it's also the only chance you'll ever have of losing £468 ,000.

So just put that into the equation.

You've got half a million.

You're going for the one you've never heard of.

Just because you haven't heard of it.

I can't influence you, it's entirely your call, but you've got £500 ,000.

I don't mind taking the odd risk now and again.

His wife's not laughing and again looks towards Whittock.

That was a joke, by the way.

It hasn't been a joke, you've been laughing for an hour.

He was about to answer the million pound question, which means that he stands to

win a million pounds, but he also stands to lose, if he's wrong, £468 ,000.

a tidy thumb to anybody.

And it became obvious that he wasn't under the pressure that he should have

somehow. It didn't make sense. He should have been very, very careful and

very certain.

And he certainly wasn't both of those, or either of those, I should say.

But Ingram's not gambling at all. He's been given the answer.

OK, let's take your time.

Take as long as you need. You've got £500 ,000.

I mean, my strategy has worked so far, you know, to take it by the bit and go

for it.

I was defensive on the last show and that, you know, very slowly got me

somewhere, but minus a lot of lifelines.

I missed quite a lot of the action of the questions between the 64 and I

think about the quarter of a million pound question because the frantic phone

calls were going on.

But the fact that he was still there without actually knowing what was going

confirmed my suspicions. And certainly when watching the million pound

you know, my heart was pumping.

I came into the studio and I saw Adrian, and he asked me if I thought that there

was anything suspicious going on.

And I had been uneasy up until that point, and we basically discussed

there was any possibility of cheating, whether he could have got hold of the

questions beforehand, or whether his wife or he had any kind of device on

or if indeed he was being helped by anyone else in the audience. If you're

wrong, you lose £468 ,000.

I don't think it's a gigabit. Again, he checks round the answers. I don't think

it's an animal.

Megatron. Mega, mega, mega.

Mega. Yeah.

I don't think it's Megatron.

I'm sure it's Google.

And again, with it delivered.

Chris, I'm going to play.

No, I'm not.

Yes, I am.

I'm going to play. I am going to play.

You do not have to play this question.

There's nothing on my screen here. You do not have to play this. You've got

,000. After three separate coughs on the million -pound question, Ingram still

wants one final signal. You've got £500 ,000.

You lose £468 ,000 if you're wrong.

I've got no answer on my screen. I'm just making you aware of exactly how you

are. No -one's ever lost.

Oh, God,

don't. No, it's a Google.

Tell me it's a Google.

God, is it a Google? Yeah.

Yeah, it's a Google.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Catch me when I fall on the floor.

I think I know. I think it's a Google.

It's there.

I'm going to play Google.

Yeah.

Final answer. Final answer.

Please don't go for a break. Please do not go for a break.

Please don't.

You're going to go for a break.

I'm going for a break. This is turning into an epic night. Join us again for

third part of tonight. Who wants to be a millionaire? Do not go away.

We didn't have to go for a break. In the break, as they wait to see if Charles

Ingram's won a million, there's furious activity backstage.

The head of Sellador is called to see if the show should be stopped.

Nobody's ever lost £468 ,000. There's no discussion today.

There's a serious amount of money at stake. Yeah, just a bit.

They said that they were on the commercial break and they were about to

and say that the guy had won a million.

But they were certain that there was some form of cheating going on. What

they do?

I called Paul and I said to him that I felt very strongly that he ought to come

up to the studio that night.

He initially was very dismissive.

And I said, well, what evidence do you have? And they said, well, just gut

instinct. And I said, well, we can't stop a show and accuse someone on gut

instinct. I said, you must go ahead and we will deal with it later.

Welcome back to the third nail -biting part of tonight's Who Wants to Be a

Millionaire? Major Charles Ingram came on tonight with just £4 ,000. He only

one lifeline left.

He got up to £500 ,000.

He got this question. Number one, followed by 100 zeros, is known by what

Google, Megatron, Gigabit, Nanomole. He initially went for Nanomole.

He then went through his various options again. He knew he would lose £468 ,000

if he was wrong.

He then went for Google mainly because he'd never heard of it and he'd heard of

the other three.

Charles, give me that cheque.

£500 ,000.

You no longer have that.

You've just won one million!

The contestant who spotted the cheat isn't clapping.

Well, I'm just sitting there glaring at Tecwen Wittig, probably

glaring at the major as well.

And my reaction is I can't believe that...

I seem to be the only person who's witnessed what I've seen. Am I the only

here who's seen this? Did I really see this?

You know, what's going on here? Why has nobody else noticed what's happening

here?

Tom Lucy, sitting opposite Larry, is equally unimpressed.

When the programme finished, I walked from here and I met my son coming down

stairs over there.

And as he looked at me, he said he was at it, Dad.

And I said, do you think so? He said, definitely.

When the major won his million pounds, it was quite a strange atmosphere in

here, because building up to that, there'd been a feeling of disbelief

the crew anyway, because we strongly suspected he was cheating.

And then when he got to the million pounds, the atmosphere wasn't.

how it should be at all. And I noticed that certain members of the crew, not

of them, but some of them weren't sure how to react because they obviously had

suspicions of their own.

I noticed some of them were slow clapping and just looking at me, not

sure what to do. And I just basically said, come on, you know, we've got to

maintain that this is a genuine win until we know otherwise.

I was there when Judith Keppel won her million.

And the whole production team, everybody was elated. It was a fantastic moment,

especially having been with the show since the start. You know, you really

somebody to get there and you really want somebody to take that little step

do it.

But because of the way that it appeared the major had got to this point, as I

say, everybody was just incredibly uncomfortable.

What a night!

Absolutely incredible.

Come on.

I have no idea how you got there. Diana, you were going, you went to hell and

back up there.

Sorry about that. I was down just sort of off set where they sort of came off

and hugged each other and Diana was crying.

But, I mean, I didn't totally believe that it was real tears. It sort of, to

was a bit put on and seemed sort of a bit fake.

Wow! I can't believe it!

Literally, they'd walked down the steps from the edge of the set and the way

that it was put to them after congratulating them was that it was

practice with big winners that we searched them for security reasons and

they object to having such a search done.

I searched his clothing, I searched his hair, I even asked him to take his shoes

off and I found nothing.

And the feeling that I was left with at that time was incredibly disappointed

because my suspicions hadn't gone away.

I was just left feeling, well, I don't quite understand what's gone on here.

After being searched, the Ingrams are taken to their dressing room, but rather

than celebrating, have a huge row.

You are good!

Security guards have pointed out that the sort of shouting coming from their

dressing room.

and their window was open, so, you know, as soon as he said that, we all sort of

listened, and, of course, you know, there was raised voices coming from

And as the security guard sort of went a bit nearer to the window to see if he

could hear what was being said, the window was slammed shut.

There was an atmosphere between the two of them in the dressing room when I was

there, an atmosphere dominated by her, and the impression was that something...

was not as it should be, definitely.

Diana looked very sort of shaken and, I mean, looked physically sort of just not

very happy.

And Charles was very tense.

And at that point he had a cigar, so a lot of his attention was sort of looking

down the floor, playing with the ash in the ashtray and just generally not

saying very much at all.

These two people had just won a million pounds.

They should have been ecstatically happy. They should have wanted to speak

the children. They should have wanted to speak to the dog. They should have

wanted to do something other than be as miserable as they seemed. And the

atmosphere, in hindsight, and this is speculation, is that

he had gone further than they had agreed that he would go.

And as a result, he had possibly exposed himself to...

what has now happened, the trial and the subsequent decision of the jury.

While the Ingrams are fighting, the man who claims his allergies made him

cough... Techwin Whittock in 7 .08... ..takes centre stage and gets into the

seat immediately after Ingram.

Right, do you want to play for a million pounds?

I certainly do.

After Peter's taken away two wrong answers, leave Techwin the right answer.

cough now gone, Whittock finds it not so easy playing it straight.

Sweet Pastries is still there.

I haven't got a clue, so obviously I'll go with what Carol said.

Sweet Pastries.

Final answer. Final answer.

You had £4 ,000.

Techwin, you've just lost £3 ,000.

As soon as the show's over...

The team begin their search for evidence of cheating.

That million -pound cheque can be cashed in eight days' time.

I got in my car and went up to the studio centre. I said to them to keep

gallery, the truck, powered up.

Could they put all the tapes up for me? And I would have a look at them. We sat

together and watched through the programmes.

And to Paul's credit, I have to say, he did try and play devil's advocate with

me.

He tried as best he could to refute each one of the costs when I said, well...

There, Paul, that one. There, that one.

He would, you know, do his best.

As we got further up the money tree, he got quieter and quieter until we got to

the million pound question when he was silent and quite pale.

And Paul Smith had to ring Charles Ingram to tell him he's not getting his

million. I have to tell you that we have suspicions from viewing the recording

of last Monday's programme and subsequently studying the tapes

there were irregularities during the taping of the show in which you

participated. Oh, good Lord, no. Because of that, I have to tell you that these

suspicions have been referred to the police.

Right. And thus... We, not for the moment, will be airing the programme or

indeed authorising payment of the cheque.

Right.

Yeah, well, I mean, you know, I completely refute that, obviously.

Good Lord, I must say. All right,

well, thanks for letting me know. OK, thank you.

Cheers, bye.

What effectively I was saying was, you have cheated us of a million pounds on

our show.

And I would have suspected that I would have, if I'd have been him in that

situation, I would have said, hang on a minute, hang on a minute, hang on a

minute, you know, what are you talking about?

With that extraordinary call, the game's up for Charles and Diana Ingram and

Tecwen Whithers. The Major resorts to his favourite strategy, the counter

-attack. I did not cheat, if I can use that very firm expression to cover

everything. I can't say that there wasn't copying going on, but I did not

hear or use copying as any form of mechanism for being able to answer those

questions.

Two weeks ago, a jury convicted Charles Ingram, his wife Diana, and their

accomplice, Tecwen Whittock, of deception.

The judge told them to give up any childish wishes they might have that

entitled to the money.

Their reputations ruined, branded cheats and liars.

They risked everything to con their way to a million pounds and lost it all.

Why do you whisper green grass?

Why tell the trees what ain't so?

Whispering grass the trees don't have to know.

No, no.

Why tell them all your secrets?

Who kissed that long ago?

Whispering grass, don't tell the trees.

Cause the trees don't need to know.

Now don't you tell it to the breeze.

Cause she'll run and tell it to the birds and bees.

And everyone'll know because you done told a blabbering tree.

Why tell them all the old things?

They're buried under the snow.

Whispering grass, don't tell the trees.

Cause the trees don't...