Lotto fraudster handed £2.5m after using FAKE ticket faces six more years in prison
The former bricklayer, 56, is set to lose a house and land in Kings Langley, Hertfordshire, where he had planned to build a hotel.
If he does not hand over his assets, valued at £939,782.44, within three months, six years will be added to the nine-year sentence he is already serving.
Putman, now 56, was found guilty in October 2019 of using a forged winning ticket to claim a £2.5 million jackpot in 2009.
The house, close to the M25, currently stands in a scruffy, unkempt state with curtains drawn shut.
The land resembles a vehicle graveyard – with at least twenty cars and vans parked up alongside caravans and mobile homes.
In a hearing at St Albans crown court today, prosecutor Adam Pearson said the benefit Putman had obtained from the fraud was £2,525,495 and the available amount for confiscation was £939,782.44.
His barrister Lawrence Selby said: “Mr Putman does not accept or agree the benefit figure or realisable assets, but will not be contesting these proceedings.”
