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A Nigerian who returned to Britain after being deported has been jailed for his role in a �2.7million lottery scam. Osas Odia, 33, was booted out of the UK in 2005 after immigration officials discovered he was using a forged stamp in his passport to work. However, the management graduate was allowed to return on a marriage visa after marrying a British nurse. Upon returning he joined a group of Nigerian fraudsters who sent thousands of letters to people across the world telling them they had won millions on the lottery. The scam letters told readers they would have to send money to 'unlock' their huge windfall. One victim, Betty McClellan, 62, wired �264,000 to the fraudsters to release her 'lottery win'. When it never arrived, Mrs McClellan was shot dead by her husband Hersey McClellan, 63, in their Los Angeles home in 2010. He then turned the gun on himself.