The owners of my newsagent have just got 14 months inside

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Two shopkeepers are starting a 14-month prison sentence today after trying to claim the £156,000 prize money on someone else’s winning lottery ticket.

Alfred Jeevarajah, 45, and his wife Anne Jeevarajah, 38, both of Oak Lane, Hingham, admitted fraud by attempting to claim the winning ticket.

Anne Jeevarajah also pleaded guilty to one charge of theft.

The couple ran a newsagents on Market Place, Hingham, when the winner brought his lottery ticket in to see if he had won anything.

Mrs Jeevarajah told him he had not and kept the ticket.

Her husband then phoned up Camelot to make the false claim.

But Camelot became suspicious and alerted police.

DC Sophie Getley from Norwich CID, who investigated the incident, said: “Playing the lottery is a game of chance but the last thing you expect is for the shopkeepers who sell you the tickets to abuse their position by trying to claim the winnings for themselves.”
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I live in this town. Camalot took the machine out 10 months ago now.

Someone went into the shop and asked Alfred to check the ticket to see if he had one anything Alfred the owner said yeah you have won £10 Alfred kept the ticket for 3 weeks and then went to make a claim to Camalot for the £156k

The person who,s Ticket it was did end up getting there money

They were called upto Norwich crwon court yesterday for Sentence and both got 14 Months

He has also kept peoples tickets saying they had not won form £10 and upwards.

Allways check your tickets online or in the paper ect

EDP Online
 
I have always had my suspicion about handing over a ticket for some stranger to check behind the counter.

You wonder how many other (minor) wins have been pocketed by dishonest staff?
 
If you're too stupid to figure out if the ticket is a winner, you deserve to be robbed, it's not rocket science.



:D

Tongue is firmly in cheek during this reply, no one really deserves to be robbed!!!
 
The full story is in todays EDP also a interview with the victum

They should also update there online site on this sometime today.
Serves them right big time

They also have a 4 year old daugter no idea whats happend to her as they dont have other family around here.

The shop itself remains closed, Hingham is more of a village than a town we dont have many shops here :( We have not evan had another loto machine since camalot took this one out :(
 
Greebo said:
I have always had my suspicion about handing over a ticket for some stranger to check behind the counter.

You wonder how many other (minor) wins have been pocketed by dishonest staff?
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There has been a few.. I was chatting to my mum a while ago one of her mates got her ticket checked there before they lost the machine the owner said she had not won but she kept the ticket and it was worth £50!
 
Probobly always worth an investigation of some sort if a newsagent with a camelot machine claims a large prize
 
Paul11 said:
wonder how they caught them, that would be quite hard to work out what was going on
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I suspect that since the ticket was sold in their shop that it might look odd that the shop owner had won?

Or perhaps it was the other way round and the ticket had been bought in another shop which would be odd if you had your own machine, why wouldn't you buy it in your shop?

If thye had been less greedy and gone halves with a distant family relative or frined rather than try to claim in their name, they might have got away with it.
 
I assume suspicions were raised when the same people, who just happened to run a shop selling tickets, kept winning! Not the brightest of people were they!
 
stipid people..

a ticket is brought at "abc news" its scanned to see if its a winner the next week, then 3 weeks go by before the claim is made....

may look very odd but its not proof they must have admitted it... still the guy could have lied and said he did it and his wife did not know...
 
The wife was the main person who took the ticket and husband was the 1 who made the claim

She was done for theft he was done for the fraud on claiming

Both went guilty
 
SixTwoSix said:
If you're too stupid to figure out if the ticket is a winner, you deserve to be robbed, it's not rocket science.



:D

Tongue is firmly in cheek during this reply, no one really deserves to be robbed!!!
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not everyone is net savvy. what about old people? maybe they trust shop owners?

i have seen them check cards before and then put them behind the counter. i never trust that
 
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