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Videos can use content-based copyright law contains reasonable use Fair Use ( Everyone knows the story of the ‘coughing major’ Charles Ingram and his wife Diana, but tonight’s episode of Quiz introduces viewers to another member of the case that they probably didn’t know about – the Ingram’s co-defendant, Tecwen Whittock. The Ingrams were put on trial after they were accused of cheating their way to the jackpot on I game show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? It was thought Charles, who was in the hot seat, had help getting questions right thanks to a plant in the audience who would ‘cough’ on the correct answer. But who is Tecwen Whittock, what part did he play in the scandal and what happened to him after the highly-publicised 2003 trial? Who is Tecwen Whittock? Tecwen Whittock was a college lecturer from Pontypridd, South Wales who became embroiled in the famous Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? coughing makor scandal. Like Charles Ingram, Whittock was also a contestant on the show – he was taking place in the Fastest Finger First round whilst Ingram was in the hotseat, so he was in the studio at the same time as the married couple during the taping of the infamous episode. Whittock would be arrested, along with the Ingrams, in connection with the scandal. At the trail, it emerged that production staff believed that it was the lecturer who was the infamous cougher. What part did Tecwen Whittock play in the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? cheating scandal In court, Whittock and the Ingrams pleaded not guilty to their charges. The Welshman claimed, during questioning that he had suffered from a persistent coughing problem all his life. Thanks to the microphones planted in the studio, he was recorded as coughing 192 times throughout the episode. Police also discovered that Whittock and Diana Ingram had been in contact – she had called him both the night before and the morning of Charles’ infamous episode taping where he won the jackpot. What happened to Tecwen Whittock after the coughing major trial? At their 2003 trial at Southwack Crown Court, Charles and Diana Ingram and Tecwen Whittock were all found guilty on one offence of procuring the execution of a valuable security by deception. The trio avoided a custodial sentence however. The Ingrams were sentenced to 18 months, with a two-year suspension and ordered to pay around £25,000. Whittock was sentenced to 12 months and ordered to pay £10,000. After the trial, the Ingrams initially courted their new-found fame for a while, but Whittock disappeared from public view. Following the sentence, he quit his job as a lecturer at Pontypridd College. He attempted to carve out a career as an after-dinner speaker, and even had to trade-mark his name to prevent a comapny from naming a coughing syrup after him. The trademark was
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