The Lottery Liar: I Faked 11 Million Dollars! (True Crime Documentary) | Real Stories
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- Опубліковано 28 січ 2023
- The bizarre story of how painter and decorator Howard Walmsley deceived his wife, family, friends - and bank manager - into believing he had won an £8.9 million (US$11.5 million) jackpot in the UK National Lottery.
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“I had to lie because if I hadn’t of lied, she’d have known the truth” .
Yeah that’s generally how lies work 🤣🤣
😂😂😂
He's so juvie ,delinquent.
That was my favourite line too. Haha.
Using the power of deduction this genius has cracked the code.
there is no such a thing as ''hadn't of'' in English. I know this, as an intermediate in English... Fool.
If he had actually won the lottery, this would have become a story of how he lost every penny!
Spot on.
Yeah not all that be lieve able
IRK?!
@@ToniHunterOne The whole docu is a fake, the Black lace mullet photos in the background gave it away for me 😂
I’m sure you’re exactly right
'I had to keep lying to her, or she would have found out the truth'
bloody good point 😂😂
😂😂
And now the hole world knows the truth 😂
Yea, I’ve found that when people don’t lie…I generally get the truth.
The pool guy:
“He ain’t no lottery winner, he’s a Wanka”.
This statement made me laugh. 😂
Could you float me a loan mate?
In UK slang I don't loan to wankers..............................................................
What a complete wker😂😂😂😂😂
(Does the W***er sign)
😂😂
In a small town near me when the lottery first came out, an old codger told bar patrons that he won the lottery. He bought a ticket with the Friday winning numbers on Saturday morning. He had a newspaper to show the winning numbers. Everyone saw that he had the winning numbers but no one checked the date on his ticket. He said he needed money to travel to the state lottery office.
People were lined up to give him money. He stayed at the bar drinking on his new found wealth. He fooled them all.
Okay but that's kinda funny
That's the way, he did, surely! It was, my question! How did he convince everyone, and at first, the Bank? So easy to fool people, in fact! 😏😏
That's a good way to get your head bashed in a few times.
The where all greedy 😅😅 what a mess
What a good idea. I will trick my BF hahahah
Someone should make a film out of this because it is truly unbelievable how one person can make so many bad decisions in such a short space of time.
Jo Biden. 😁
There was a TV series drama about it I think it Starred Martin Kemp
He was a calculated deluded doughnut 🍩!
@@Ajax93 Yeah, I discovered that after I wrote that post. I also read about how he's also screwed three grannies out of their money by promising to marry them and is on the run in Vietnam, so the detective saying he'd give him about 2.5 hours after he got out before he was up to his old tricks was right. Also, Howard Walmsley isn't even his name apparently! He is a career con artist!
@@workinprogresssince1974 Bonus ball struck again lol
People will always spend time with you when you have something they want.
Did you see them disappear the minute they found out there was no money?
I agree ? But he didn't have anything 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆
The fact that he asked the girlfriend to take out a loan of £30 000 and use it on his wife makes him the first actual Tinder Swindler. She is such a beautiful woman. She can really do better
VB I think she is incredibly beautful as well, and such a sweet spirit to stick by that wanker. She would make a lovely wife for someone else, and I hope she is happy now. I can relate, I have been married to and dated some real douchebags, and can't figure out where my self esteem was at during those times. Women need to know their worth!
@Kara Dodge You are so right. He knows she's out of his league, so we will never know what he or anyone else said to her behind closed doors to doubt her worth
@little Dorit Very interesting comment! 🤔👍
never underestimate the power of low self esteem
When a guy does this it's wrong, when a woman does it then it's called a relationship.
How he was able to buy things on just his word is beyond me.
That's how a person gets credit cards etc to buy stuffffff...
jus saying/agreeing to make the payments.
Really small town and everyone believed it by his new "lifestyle" change.
{from the bank loan}
Fake it til ya make it only....
he never made it.
That's normally how it is with really rich people, they live the high life on the spot without paying a dime.
The bills rack up everywhere they go but it all goes to their accountants later on, instead.
Rich people, tend to get the most "expensive" things for "free" from the top brands/businesses/companies just because of, who they are.
The expensive car dealership & the whole town were all seeing money signs.
"We'll give him everything because he won the lottery, he's good for it & then, he'll come back to our business and actually spend even MORE money"
Something in it for, them.
#Greed
That's what I can't figure out. How is he BUYING any of this? I'm halfway through and don't understand where the money is coming from? Borrowed at first, but then what? I don't get it at all.
I have to go back to the beginning bcs I'm totally confused. It's like a bad tv movie.
He had a mistress that loaned him 30,000 for a deposit on a house but he then used that to convince Kathy hes won the lottery
@@joanmargaret4899 bear in mind this happened in the 90’s when checks were still usual tender and when people where generally more naive to this sort of scam. Once he managed to establish himself as wealthy ( though sly deceit and a decent amount of dumb luck ) he was then taken at his word whenever he went. It seems strange because today it would be and you’d never get away with anything like it nowadays. At least that’s what I think anyway
I’ve been married 16 years. I trust my husband but, if he told me he won the lottery, I would definitely need to see proof. Anyone reading this…make sure you have an open book policy with bills, checking/savings accounts. I also did social work for 15 years and I saw women and men who were in the middle of divorces or separations or their loved one passed away and they had no idea how much debt they were in. Their husbands/boyfriends/partners forging their names for credit cards, loans etc. Financial autonomy is one of the most important parts of a relationship. Stay informed.
Agree, stay informed, be involved.
I knew a woman who told her new husband she was getting no child support on three kids. Lied for years. Her Husband's Son went without while her kids lived very well. This because the New Husband spent his money carrying her and her kids while she contributed nothing to the family. When the Husband died she concealed all assets from the estate. The Son sued her and she was forced to account and pay up.
Agree x
Also make sure when dating online that you get a live or proof of identity note from them with "HI" your name hand written on paper with today's day and your person's face in background and only give them two minutes which should be more than enough time to take a selfie
@@factsbased.7400 If her children were living well because she was spending the child support on them did her new husband never ask her where the money came from and if he saw that her kids were living well why would he not have spent more on his son instead of them if his son was doing without?
34:00 He’s standing there casually talking to his wife about where the pool should have been in the yard of that farmhouse. 😂😂 I would be embarrassed for life.
shes actually delusional for staying with him and re-living and telling the story like it was a fun time or silly joke
The chap is a nutter & they both deserved each other. 😅
@@manuelcaycedo561 Exactly!!
What did she even mean when she said “we put a lot of work into it”? lol she had plans drew up
@@PrincessNads1 like I really don't understand how she could stay with him and be okay with it after all of that deceit. And then casually talk about her husband scamming people as if it were romantic.. scary 😅
what the architect said to the pool guy...."he ain't no lottery winner... he's a wanker"... spot on that man
Wanker slang so funny .unfortunately not for some. Just started watching 3:30 pm Canada. Mom being from Scotland, Inverness. Lived in London England during WW11 five years as a Civil Servant telephone operator. % years under rations and a Blackout so not to be bombed by show of lights. RIP Mom Am myself now this next month ^5 yrs of age. We love you.
It's the right word since after all, he's a fantasist!
I cannot understand how she stayed with him after realizing how far he'll go to lie to her and keep it up. He's not only made her look like such a fool for believing it but also for staying with him. Perhaps it's different in the UK but in the US your credit, financial future, and name would be ruined for the rest of your life.... And she stayed with him... Wow. He's obviously a psychopath... Zero guilt, zero shame.
I mean, it all happened in 1998, so she may have by now.
Indeed, he then went on to con another woman out of money years after this, he had changed his name and altered his appearance and ruined another unsuspecting woman. The man is a serial con artist.
@@Joanna7428 OMG! I'd love to read that story! He doesn't seem to have that sort of personality...
"for richer for poorer, for better or worst, until death do us part"....
@@Stratosmegas really? all of us? how many of us have you surveyed in order to arrive at that conclusion?
She looks completely miserable,someone who can lie like that is dangerous
Very
He's done his time . He knows he made a 'ball's of it. God bless them both, I just wish them both the best of look.❤
@@stephenkelly7397 you sir are one of the only people that actually lives by the rules of society lol
I think he believed in his own lie.
@@stephenkelly7397 he's actually on the run now look him up
So sad. You can see how truly broken she is deep down. Probably only accepted him back because she thinks she’s not worth more. She’s worth so much more.
So sad
She’s not all that great. She promised not to tell anyone and immediately went and shared their financial situation and proceeded to try and spend it all as fast as she possibly could.
In fact, he would have told her except then he would have to explain it to the town.
She is very attractive
Or because she married him and unlike so much garbage today, she believes in "for better or worse"
They both had no sense whatsoever. The husband or the wife.
Why wouldn't she believe him tbf. He's her husband.
The only thing they had compatible was perhaps their hair!
🤣🤣😊
She should have/could have asked for proof. Their marriage was already on the ropes so she stayed for money, money he did not have!!! That's HER fault.
@@CradleEpiscopalian56 well apparently he's on the run now. Google him
Wife feels guilty about spending £8 on a pair of shoes. He orders 3 Jaguars without blinking.
Love
I don't understand why she took him back after all he did to so many people. How could he ever be trusted again??
Hope she checked her credit report!
11 million reasons for that 🚜some African sat waiting for his tractor to arrive up to this very day.
Exactly! I have to wonder if she knows more than she lets on .... hmm
@@IMMORTALDIO i dont get your joke brother haha
No.ha ..and they still don't have their tractor watch again lol@@manuelcaycedo561
This guy is so psychopathic that he still has no guilt. He almost looks proud, like it was a fun little game for him, with zero thought for her emotions… Sad!
He gave her the life she always wanted. Even if only for a moment. Have you done that much for your lady?
@@benjamindover4337 He had a history of being a conman, he lied, watched his wife give away her possessions and on top of all of that he had a mistress. Your bar is on the floor
@@Bookish_Lattes
He only had the mistress to get the £30,000 probably, he obviously loved his wife to go to this extreme!
Besides everybody lies in one form or another, maybe you just don’t find out about them .
Plus all this is probably what he needed to turn a corner.
@@Maria-0017 😂😂😂
@@Maria-0017 Turn a corner to be on the most wanted list by the FBI?
When he's in the backseat w the safety belt on looking like a kid who just got caught lying to his teacher 🤦♂️
😂😂🤗
He is on the run from police in the Uk for conning older women out of their life savings. Horrible, horrible man
He’s so smug about it, what a total loser. Those 3 victims who suffered his fraudulent life style, I feel so sad for them. His poor wife, how she stayed with him is beyond me. I hope she’s free from him now, it made her look silly as well. Xx
She stayed for the money she thought he won ! Goes to show what she's about!
@@5castles893 exactly
@@5castles893 I fully agree, she certainly didn't pull her face n refuse the shiny bit of metal he bought her?🤔😏😂✌️
Agree. Wife must be a fool ... or knew about the scam from the start ...
He's been at it again-defrauding some gullible lady out of tens of thousands
He’s not right in the head and the same goes for her for staying with him.
He left her years ago for others he has conned... that doc is over 2o yrs old....
@@orionxtc1119 hopefully she found a good man who treats her right, I think she deserved it.
No accounting for some people’s taste. In this case it’s a liar and a cheater.
@@orionxtc1119 she died of a heart attack at 49 sadly before he fleeced a few other ladies out of huge sums.
@truevanpencil5403
Is that correct please seems no mention of her death anywhere??
I enjoyed watching this for the comedy value of how unbelievable it is and how he got away with it but also because I was able to reminisce how the world once was... ahhhh yes... the 90's !
Everyone seemed so much nicer back then
HE DID IT AGAIN! : Published on The Star website, Dated: 22nd Jan 2023
"John Eric Wells is wanted by South Yorkshire Police. He is also believed to have used the named Howard Walmsley and Howard Hemmings"
"Aged in his early 60s and originally from South Yorkshire, he is wanted in connection with three high value romance frauds, during which three victims lost money totalling more than £400,000."
"The offences are reported to have taken place from September 2014 onwards. The victims lived in locations across the UK including Doncaster, Sussex and London."
"Officers searching for Wells believe he may be abroad."
@funkybuddhalnit Do you reckon this guy has changed his name by deed poll? The interviews with his solicitor showed paperwork with Walmsley on it, and that’s also how the police referred to him.
I looked online for John Eric Wells & it is this same guy, just many years down the road. All the newer stuff under Wells says that Walmsley is an alias.
Woah 😮
He’s in Dubai
There is a video about him one of his victims was on This morning show talking about how he scammed her out if thousands of pounds.
Prison nickname bonus ball made me laugh out loud! Gotta love the northern sense of humour.
He is a sociopath the way he speaks with no emotion.. I come back for this every few year bc it’s so fascinating how it all happened..
I’m afraid so.
Yeah, I've watched it a few times too.
Have you watched it again in 2024 yet?
I live there 😢
This elaborate lie is giving me terrible anxiety. All I can think about is the debt they are creating!
Justice would be served if the wife had subsequently won the lottery and then left him.
Or a real millionaire came along, and swept her off her feet.
Howard: Would you still love me if you won the lottery? Kathy: Yes, but I'd miss you.
😂😂😂@@RockyDave
When the woman said "it was me that got the tacky settee"
Comedy gold 🙊
Liar? Con man? Monotone robot? You decide.
Yeah the monotone robot!! Face muscles don't move as he speaks!! Talk about the best poker face ever!!
This is from the 1990s. It seems that the psychiatrist telling him that he would revert back to his old tricks is true, as he's been conning old women out of their life savings.
Wow. Is he still married to his wife?
They gave it to him voluntarily - these old, sick c#nts! No crime was committed.
If I won the lottery, I would donate all of it to the Federal Government to help reduce the national debt because I'm an American Patriot and I want better for the future generations!
@@swallowedinthesea11 , You can spend money more productively for the USA than the corrupt government.
@@swallowedinthesea11 And not a cent would get there, and that much more would be gone in minutes. How naive can you be!
I bet he told his girlfriend that he wasn't married.
In order for him to tell and stick with such an elaborate lie, he had to have been lying like a rug before he met his wife. You don't go from zero to an 8 million pound lie over night.
Obviously he told her, that's why he said he needed the £30,000 to start a new life and get out of the house with his wife
You can tell that she’s still broken from the lie. He doesn’t deserve such a woman that would stay with him after such a sham. Sad to see the pain behind her eyes. Not that she didn’t get the money but rather how she was deceived and how far he went to do it.
She’s cut from the same cloth as him if you ask me : vacuous self-centred, insecure and amoral. She knew all along, she just wanted it to be true enough to suspend her critical faculties and dive headfirst into Howard’s delusion. She’s as bad as him if you ask me :)
His nickname in prison was bonus ball 💀💀💀💀🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Lmao 😂😂😂😂 ahahaha I’m dying over here
well said
I haven't watched it yet but read your comment and I had to laugh I get the basics of the story dude coned his family sounds like trump 😅
Sucks! don't he?
@@rayfabris2512
I don't know what coned is. A cone, like the orange ones they use on roads when they're being worked on ? And trumped ? How can a cone be trumped, are you talking about bridge ? A cone playing bridge ?
This guy should not been given any attention for doing something that vile. He is still gloating about it, instead of feeding sorry for what he did.
Changed name to John Eric Wells - accused of tricking three grandmothers out of £400,000 in 2019 - was living in Vietnam with a wealthy lover, 18 years after jailed - The detectives correctly forecast his criminal career.
Her saying she was a millionaire takes the cake.
😂😂
Yes, not just a piece but the whole cake !!!
@@sue5980 the whole bakery!!
DELUSIONAL 101
she meant it in her head
so she believed it qwas real
He gained all.kinds of " friends" when they thought he was rich, then lost all the " friends" when he was exposed as a fraud. All past friends say they would have been friends with him anyway. LOL. Good thing that's not the type of fraud you go to jail for
He didn't realize he actually won the lottery, his girlfriend is a huge win!
This happened close to where im from. I ve seen this soo many times i now come back for the comments from the new viewers 😂my favourite line is from the wife when she says ive got good friends and neighbours but there's far too much crime going off round here!!! ermm yeah your husband is one of the crooks!!!🤣
What cracks me up is when they go looking at the house that would have been theirs and what they were going to do to it. Omg and his nickname in jail was BONUS BALL! 😂
@@GA-fz2wt 😂😂😂😂BONUS BALL!!!!! 😂😂😂😂They are like the epitome of Northerners .I didn’t think it could get any funnily but his nickname tops it😂
@@straight.no.chaser1708 I laugh about it often haha I'm northern too 😁
I did some research and sadly he ended up doing similar to two other women in the mid-late 2010s, conning them out of thousands of pounds. He is believed to be on the run from police, apparently hiding out in Vietnam. No remorse, repeat offender. His wife in this video died of a heart attack at 47.
How is she still with him?! Guy is insane
They had 8 kids and lived in a council house. What other option do you imagine she had?
@@benjamindover4337 not sure what a counsil house is but maybe move in with parents or friends until she can get her own place?
A lot of men (and women) lie, maybe not to this extreme, but they lie, at least his reasons was to win his wife back !
@@Kyle-805 a lot of assumptions built into that question kid
@Benjamin Dover I didn't know they had that many kids! she must love the guy to keep him. she's getting housing and food assistance, right?
" in prison his nickname is bonus ball" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂comedy gold
I don’t know how she took him back. How could you ever trust someone who had lied that much to you?
You couldn't.
They seem to not realize how they harmed other people as if their imagination could just wipe that away!
I remember this story it was funny and sad at the same time !! 🙃😁
I felt the same way! I was laughing and then felt bad for those involved
It was funny then. But in the age of Trump, George Santos, Anna Delvey and other con artists, well, no it's no longer funny!
10:00 damn girl, I hope you have a sister
Hes made them both a laughing stock and she's still stayed with him 😂😂..
I am still in shock how this was real 😮
Lunatic, we need Asylums back !
I cannot comprehend how any of this actually took place!
And shes still with him. Thats one of those Amazing Stories !
Apparently got divorced & He is in Vietnam
"Bonus Ball" LOL That made me laugh so hard for the fact that I got the same nickname, but for a much different reason...I have an extra testicle.
You would be amazed at people, a woman came into a previous business I worked in saying she had won the lottery and could they help her build up her own TV station. I said from the off, she is a fantasist. Everyone, literally everyone said I was being ridiculous, even jealous . Until it was found it, she was just that and didn't have a penny. Money is the biggest manipulator to make people with common sense turn into gullible idiots.
I thought it was a comedy play😂
Same here
The second-hand embarrassment is so real... I wouldn't be able to sleep with all the lying and bounced cheques.
So any classic lines in this legendary documentary, The solicitor talking about the jail sentance: "the shorter the better, from your point of view".
"I had to lie or she would have known the truth"
If I hadn't lied, she'd have known the truth 😅
What a 42 carat plonka 😂🙄
If this would have happened more recently he could have passed it off as a prank.
Behind her eyes is so much sadness. Behind his eyes.... nothing
So, the wife was going to leave him but stayed when she thought he’d lottery, says as much about her as it does about him.
Can you blame her? She probably had to put up with a lot of b..s before this that she thought okay now is not the time 😂
Sounded to me like she really loved him and was only thinking of leaving because he wasn't working and carrying his end of the load. Hitting the lottery would've solved that problem. Just the fact that she didn't leave immediately when the truth comes out says she actually cared about him and wasn't some gold digger.
He isn't sorry. He's sorry he got caught.
This should be a film
I laughed out loud at the point when he said something like, "I'm sorry I did wrong. I've learned my lesson. I won't do that again. I shouldn't take such big risks". Lolol! No Dude! That's not the problem!
Strange…’’i just dont get why anyone would just tell their wife that they won the lottery….🤔🤨😳
This is one of the funniest stories I have ever heard. couldn't help but watch again
@@kelly6739 I know. I mean funny because it's so bizarre the way everyone just believed him
She's as completely deluded as he is.
This video was 48 solid minutes of pure secondhand embarrassment 😭🥴
The Wanker and the Fool. That should be the title.
When I watched this years ago I always thought she was madder than him and that hasn't changed
Everyone else got hurt, and he just basically got away with it...
Interesting study on human nature and greed.
The sad part is all the people who have lost money through his actions …. He is a loser and can’t believe she took him back . She deserves someone better. He’ll always be a con man ! How embarrassing for his wife 😢
Yes and she’s an absolute Angel I’m sure. 🖕🏼
All I am saying is that I understand. Been caught up in endless lies i couldnt get out of. never ends well though. Quite silly actually.
But I am glad my people love me and stuck around. I have lost so many to this pathetic toxic trait.
I have a friend that’s similar he lies almost every sentence nothing major but still lies he doesn’t do it on purpose he’s been like that since we were kids
you need therapy
How embarrassing for his wife. No way I would have stayed with him!
Why did she? Hmmm.... perhaps she knew more than she is admitting.... how could she not know anything?
People are amazed but you wouldn't believe how many people lie about this sort of stuff and worse. Lies always get bigger
Seems like this guy has no emotion? What about the woman he took 30k from, like he has no emotion or tears or anything?
Guy is very scary and wouldn’t believe a word he says
If he shows his real emotions he is not a confidence man. He gained and broke people's confidence.
HE DID IT AGAIN! Can't Buy Me Love conman' accused of tricking three grandmothers out of £400,000 is now living in Vietnam with a wealthy lover 18 years after he was jailed for faking an £8.9m lottery win. John Eric Wells who also goes by the names Howard Walmsley and Howard Hemmings
He never changed at all. Now wanted by the police for ripping lovers off for £400000. Mind blowing
His psychiatrist said:He’s in a higher risk of reoffending 😮
He was right ,he did scam other people and changed his name many times and now he has absconded.
At first, when I started watching this, I thought it was a spoof. And then realised it's an actual documentary! :-)
10 out of 10 Glasgow
I can't believe Howard wore a sweatshirt to court & NOT a shirt, tie & suit coat !!!!!--- Proper attending court attire!!!!!!!!
Right, like that was his biggest problem or would have made a particle of difference hahahahaha
The pair have about as much personality as a cabbage! 😂😂😂
Nah someone needs to make a movie of this story and give this man his 9 million 😂😂😂😂
He's been jailed since this for conning other women too lying saying he had cancer and was dying
This man is quite possibly the worlds biggest Wally
The think that sticks out to me about Howard, is how meek he appears. I think that’s why most people fell for it because they felt sorry for him.
“In prison his nickname is bonus ball” 😂😂😂
Both of them are sick.
I'd laugh if she actually got off with a real millionaire
@Veeseevee Veeseevee But she loves him....
That was exactly what I was thinking. Seems like a wonderful woman wasting her life on a criminal.
Common assault carries a maximum penalty of six months in prison and/or a fine or community order. A prison sentence is generally reserved for cases where serious injury was caused, and higher culpability is present. Conning banks and car showrooms gets 3 years. Nice that judges take violence seriously.
She stayed with him after he made a fool of her wow
This is like a Victoria Wood sketch
16:34.." my name is David Halum and I am a bell end ...we build expensive swimming pools ..not just normal everyday cheap swimming pools ..expensive ones " ...
He’s mad that ppl don’t want to be friends with a liar.
He's a special kind of cabbage..and she's a special kind of woman to stick by him after that fiasco he created..
Not a very smart one.
So just before court he is out to a fancy restaurant and buying jewellery. He hadn’t learned a thing.
I forgot how insane this is. 😆
The path to becoming a millionaire almost never includes purchasing lottery tickets, but people believe the fantasy no matter how astronomically distant it is!