Drama as Millionaire juror discharged

A juror in the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? trial was discharged today for undisclosed legal reasons.

The case at London's Southwark Crown Court will resume tomorrow when the remaining eight women and three men are expected to continue the deliberations they began yesterday.

In the dock is Major Charles Ingram, who is accused of "cheating his way" to the top prize on the ITV game show, lecturer Tecwen Whittock, who is said to have used carefully-timed coughs to guide the officer to the correct answers, and the Royal Engineer's wife, Diana, who allegedly helped "set up" the scam.

The Ingrams, both 39, of High Street, Easterton, Wiltshire, and Whittock, 53, who lives at Heol-y-Gors, Whitchurch, Cardiff, and is head of business studies at Pontypridd College, south Wales, each deny a single charge of "procuring the execution of a valuable security by deception" on September 10, 2001.