Winston Ingram

Winston Ingram is played by Paul Riley. Winston is a good friend of Jack and Victor's. He is known for his lust for money. Which can be as simple as a bet at the bookies and sometimes it takes the form of less honest acts, such as committing benefit fraud to make his life a little more comfortable. He has several enemies, including Stevie the Bookie and in many episodes; he gets quickly emotionally embroiled in arguments with people who administer him money, including the benefits office. In the episode "Scran", it was revealed Winston used to work in the Clyde shipyards, at Yarrows. His eighty-a-day cigarette habit caught up with him though, and led to him needing his right leg amputated at the end of the third series. He is known to have a daughter, a son, and two grandsons, Joe and Thomas. In the first episode, "Flittin", he told Tam he was "happily divorced". However, he seems to have some sense of morality, often reprimanding Tam for his meanness, and other people if he disagrees with their behaviour. In episodes "Dug" and "Holiday", he also pretended to have a relationship with Isa to fend off the attempts of her ex-husband, Harry, to get back with her. Winston often takes advantage of Isa's kindness in order to receive free food. In the ninth series, he meets Winnie, a wheelchair-bound woman that he first met on Tinder who he would then marry in "Hitched". In the earlier stage play, he talks about a brother living in Nevada and a son who died in a car accident in the 1960s but it is unknown if this is correct with the television series. In the TV canon, he does have a brother named Walter.