Charles Ingram, the former army major found guilty this year of trying to cheat the Who Wants to be a Millionaire quiz show, yesterday added insurance fraud to his criminal record.
A jury at Bournemouth Crown Court convicted the former Royal Engineers officer on two counts of deception but cleared him of five further charges.
Mr Ingram, 40, was convicted of obtaining pecuniary advantage by deception when he signed up for a policy with Direct Line Insurance in July 2001, by falsely asserting he had made no insurance claims in the three previous years. He was also convicted of making a claim for £30,000 on that falsely obtained policy.
But he was cleared of similar charges in respect of a second policy from Zurich Municipal. He will be sentenced on November 21.
Mr Ingram, his wife Diana and Tecwen Whittock, a college lecturer, were given suspended sentences and fined as a result of the quiz show scam. Mr Ingram has since lost his £45,000-a-year army job and, his lawyer says, has debts of £400,000.
By Nikki Tait, Law Courts correspondent
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