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Why Lottery scratchcard winners who bagged £4million didn’t get a PENNY after ‘slip up’ when trying to claim cash
Watch the moment the pair were filmed dancing from the win
TWO lotto scratchcard winners who bagged £4million didn't see a penny of it after a "slip up" when trying to claim their prize.
Jon-Ross Watson and Mark Goodram went on a four-day bender after hitting the jackpot while on a trip to London in 2019.
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CCTV footage from a Londis in Clapham shows the second the criminals realised they'd won on a ticket bought in a nearby Waitrose, reports.
The film shows Watson dancing and jumping around, while Goodram bangs his fists on the counter before gesturing at the worker on the tills.
But their joy was short-lived.
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A LOTTERY winner has hit back after being accused of pocketing a £1million jackpot after splitting from her boyfriend.
Charlotte Cox, 37, has slammed her ex-partner, Michael Cartlidge's "rubbish" claims that he is entitled to half the massive win.
The couple, from Spalding, Lincs, have been embroiled in a nasty war over who deserves the life-changing £1million pay out.
Confusion arose after Camelot agreed the pair should split the money, but new Lottery owners Allwyn made a U-turn weeks later and ruled Charlotte was the sole winner.
The mum-of-one had been dating Michael for three months when they scooped the lucky ticket on a spontaneous Friday evening.
But weeks after their win, Michael received a message "out of the blue" from Charlotte's friend asking him to move out.
The men, who live in Bolton, had used someone else's bank card to buy the ticket.
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The conspiracy unravelled when Goodram tried to claim the money from Camelot and he accidentally let slip that he didn't have a bank account.
Bosses at the company became suspicious, and investigator Stephen Long began a probe.
Goodram told Mr Long the card he'd used to buy the ticket belonged to a friend called John who "owed him money".
But he was unable to reveal 'John's' surname or address.
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It was then discovered that the stolen card actually belonged to a man named Joshua Addyman.
Despite the net tightening around them, Watson and Goodram went on the offensive.
Watson, a convicted burglar, launched a media blitz, telling The Sun: "The Lottery catchline is ‘It Could Be You’. Well, it should be us.
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“Camelot bosses are messing us around, probably because they know we’ve had a lively past and been in prison. Well, that’s too bad.
“They need to pay us what we are owed, or else.
“I should be living it up in Las Vegas.”
He even claimed his life had been "ruined" by the company.
"In a way, it has ruined my life," he told .
"People have been calling me a scumbag and laughing at me.
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"I am just depressed all the time.
"I can't go to Bolton anymore, everywhere I go people laugh at me."
But now both of the crooked 'winners' have been jailed for 18 months each after admitting three counts of fraud by false representation.
Detective Constable Michelle Wilkinson, of Greater Manchester Police's Complex Fraud Team, said: "This was quite an extraordinary case as Goodram and Watson's chances of claiming this scratch-card were one in four million.
"Unfortunately for them, they had knowingly bought this ticket through fraudulent means.
"While the massive winnings were never put in the wrong hands and no one came to any harm, there is no doubt in my mind that these men would have gladly accepted this money without any remorse for their illicit ways of obtaining it.
"The vigilance of staff at Camelot has to be commended, and the subsequent investigation by our team at the Complex Fraud Team has ensured that these two men are rightly behind bars and can learn to accept how their selfish and unscrupulous actions were far from acceptable."
Goodram's ex-girlfriend Shelly Birtles, who dated him for two years, told The Sun the money should be used to pay back his petty crime victims.
The mum said: "When I realised Camelot weren’t giving him the money I laughed my head off. That’s karma for you.
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"If the scratchcard was bought using a stolen debit card, the winnings should go to the card owner.
"And if he is granted the money, he should give it back to everyone he has stolen from."
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