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—obtaining a signed cheque for £1 million—by cheating on the filming of the UK game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? The charge was that Charles Ingram used coughs by his wife and Whittock to guide him to the correct answers, in order to win £1 million in violation of the rules of the game. The Ingrams were sentenced to an 18-month suspended sentence and Whittock to one of 12 months. The three also received fines and were ordered to pay costs. Background Charles Ingram was a Major in the British Army. He and his wife Diana had debts of £50,000. They both entered TV quiz shows with Diana appearing on Who Wants to Be A Millionaire? winning £32,000 and her brother also appearing separately, winning the same amount. The Ingrams had been contestants as a couple on the show but did not make it onto the hot seat. Charles entered the show on his own in 2001. By winning Fastest Finger First, he entered the game proper. During the first day of filming he made it to the £4,000 question but used up two of his three lifelines. Between the two days of filming, it is reported that Diana made contact with future contestant Tecwen Whittock to plan how to help Charles win £1 million. On the second day of filming, Charles entered saying he had a strategy for playing the rest of the game. The host Chris Tarrant stated that no-one on the production staff expected Charles to go much further as he had been struggling with the previous questions. Suspicions arose during filming when loud coughing was heard to the correct answers. A sound technician called Celador's CEO to inform him of their suspicions and asked if filming should be stopped. He said "no", but that he would review the tapes after filming had finished for the day. Charles eventually won the million pounds and received a cheque for this amount signed by Tarrant, though it was retained by Celador for eight days for processing. The CEO, upon reviewing the tapes with the technicians, and playing devil's advocate with each cough heard, concluded there