A SHOPWORKER from Gravesend who told a £79,000 lottery winner he had won just £10 is due to be sentenced today after being found guilty of fraud.
Imran Pervais, of Milton Road, Gravesend, was working in Moores Convenience Store, in Mackenzie Way at the time of the offence.
On May 18, 2012, syndicate organiser Callum Crosier routinely visited the store to check the 28 lines his office group at Morrison Utility Services in Chatham entered each week and to buy the same lines for the draw the following day.
Checking the four tickets, Pervais told Mr Crosier his third ticket had won just £10.
Having matched five balls and the bonus ball, it was actually worth £79,000.
Pervais denied one count of fraud but a jury at Maidstone Crown Court took just two hours and 30 minutes to find him guilty on March 27.
The 26-year-old is set to be sentenced at the same court this morning.
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