Manchester shop worker jailed for £1m lottery fraud

A Manchester shop worker has been jailed after fraudulently trying to claim the £1m lottery winnings of an elderly woman.

Farrakh Nizzar, 30, from Greater Manchester, told Maureen Holt, 77, she had won nothing when he scanned her ticket at a convenience store in Oldham.

He later tried to claim the EuroMillions jackpot himself

Nick Ravencroft reports.

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