A newsagent has been jailed after she stole a winning lottery ticket taken to her shop by a loyal customer - and her husband tried to claim the £156,000 prize.Shopkeeper Anne Jeevarajah, 38, kept the lucky ticket when winner Gwyn Badham-Davies, 73, took it to her store to see if he had won.
She checked it on her machine at the family's shop in Hingham, near Watton, Norfolk, but did not tell the pensioner he had won a small fortune.
Her husband, Alfred Jeevarajah, 45, then brazenly rang up lottery organisers Camelot and told them he had won.
The couple were jailed for 14 months each at Norwich Crown Court yesterday. Read More
