Lottery winner 'not bitter' over wife's new man

Anthony Robinson, who claims Tracy Sinclair-Robinson repeatedly forged his signature on financial documents without his knowledge, told Stafford Crown Court the allegations were not motivated by anger.

Giving evidence on the third day of his wife's trial, the father-of-three denied being bitter about the fact that another man had moved into his home.

The labourer, who won the lottery in 1995, also alleged his wife, from Pattingham, South Staffordshire, had had four affairs.

Under questioning from his wife's barrister, Mr Robinson agreed he had been arrested on February 12 last year after his wife claimed he had assaulted her.

The court heard that four days later, Mr Robinson first went to a police station to make the allegations of financial wrongdoing against his wife.

Defence barrister Jonathan Rose asked Mr Robinson: "Did you decide to do that as a result of having been, as it were, kicked out of your house?"

The Lottery winner replied: "No. I was making investigations before that. Due to the investigations – what I found – it led me to go to the police."

Sinclair-Robinson, 42, of Great Moor Road, Pattingham, denies five counts of fraud and one of theft alleged to have been committed between 2001 and 2008.

Under further questioning, Mr Robinson told the jury he had not given his wife permission to sign his name on credit card applications, a mortgage document or a form to withdraw money from their investments.

The Lottery winner, who married the defendant in 1996, estimated he now had around 130,000 left from his windfall.

The trial continues.