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Lottery winner scam solicitor jailed
Wednesday 11th January 2012, 7:01PM GMT.
Lottery winner Keith Gough and solicitor Nicholas Heywood
A solicitor who cheated money out of the ‘vulnerable’ alcoholic former husband of a Shropshire lottery winner was this afternoon jailed for 12 months.
Solicitor Nicolas Heywood tricked former Bridgnorth baker Keith Gough out of £14,000 as he abused his position of trust, a court heard.
Heywood, 45, of High Bank Lane, Bolton, admitted money laundering, perverting the course of justice and prejudicing a money laundering investigation and was jailed for 12 months at Chester Crown Court.
The court heard that Heywood acted for Mr Gough after he was given £1.5 million of his then wife Louise’s £9 million National Lottery win in June 2005.
Mr Gough spent much of his share of the winnings on racehorses, fast cars and an executive box at Aston Villa. He died aged 58 in May 2010 at Telford’s Princess Royal Hospital following a suspected heart attack.
Heywood is the second man to be jailed for fleecing Mr Gough. In 2009, conman James Prince was jailed for more than three years after a court heard he kept Mr Gough ‘holed up and boozed up’ while he raided his account of £700,000.
The offence for which Heywood was today convicted relates to a loan made to Mr Gough as a result of Prince’s scams. Part of the loan, worth £13,750, was transferred by Heywood to himself.
Heywood also hindered a police investigation into a second matter involving a man called Duncan Adamson.
In later years Mr Gough spoke about how winning so much money had ‘ruined his life’.
In 2009 Mr Gough, who split from his wife of 25 years in 2007, said: “My life was brilliant. But the lottery has ruined everything. What’s the point of having money when it sends you to bed crying?”
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