Saturday, March 15, 2014

British EuroMillions ticket-holder scoops entire £107.9m jackpot and becomes UK"s fourth biggest lottery winner

The winning ticket-holder of last night’s EuroMillions has shot to sixth place on the National Lottery Rich List. So far, nobody has come forward to claim the bumper prize, Camelot said.


Here are the official top 10 biggest winners since the lottery began:



Colin and Chris Weir

1. Colin and Chris Weir: £161,653,000
The

husband and wife, from Largs in Ayrshire, said they were ‘tickled pink’

after becoming Europe’s biggest lottery winners in July 2011. 


Married

for 30 years and with two children, the life-changing £161 million

prize catapulted them into the Sunday Times Rich List above Beatle Ringo

Starr and Sir Tom Jones.


Psychiatric

nurse Mrs Weir, 55, and Mr Weir, 64, who worked as a TV cameraman and

studio manager for 23 years, have reportedly bought a fleet of cars for

friends since their win as well as a mansion.



Adrian Bayford, 41, and wife Gillian, 40

2. Adrian and Gillian Bayford: £148,656,000
Children’s

nurse Gillian, 40, and record seller Adrian, 41, from Haverhill,

Suffolk, said they planned to fork out on luxury holidays and cars when

they won in August last year.


Adrian

joked to his wife that he had not bought any tickets, before she told

him to be quiet as she was trying to get their children to sleep as he

celebrated the win.



3. Anonymous: £113,019,926
One British ticket scooped the massive prize in October 2010 but decided not to go public.




4. Anonymous: £107,900,000


Last night’s winner who is yet to come forward:


Dave Dawes and Angela Dawes


5. Dave and Angela Dawes: £101,203,600
Dave

Dawes, 47, a shift supervisor for Premier Foods, and Angela Dawes, 43, a

volunteer for the British Heart Foundation, hit the EuroMillions

jackpot in October 2011.


It was only the third time the couple, from Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, had played the lottery.



6. Anonymous: £84,451,320
The haul was won in May 2010 but the winner kept their identity secret.




7. Anonymous: £81,381,673


A winner from 2013, who is yet to come forward: £81,381,673


Euro Lottery winner Nigel Page celebrates with his partner Justine


8. Nigel Page: £56,008,113


Self-confessed white van man Nigel Page, 43, scooped a cool £56 million in February 2010.


The

skydiving enthusiast, who lived in a three-bedroom semi near

Cirencester, Wiltshire, married his girlfriend Justine, 42, and moved

into a mansion in the Cotswolds.


It

was reported that he paid ex-wife Wendy, 43, £2million after she made a

legal claim for £8million. The pair had separated 10 years before his

bumper win.



9. Anonymous: £46,432,285


One British ticket scooped the massive prize in February last year but decided not to go public.



Les Scadding, 58, and his wife Samantha Peachey-Scadding, 38

10. Les and Sam Scadding: £45,570,835
Unemployed

mechanic Les Scadding, 58, and his wife Samantha Peachey-Scadding, 38,

from Caerleon, South Wales, bought one of two winning tickets which

shared a £90million jackpot in November 2009.


Grandfather

Mr Scadding was £68 overdrawn on his bank account on the day he bought

his lucky ticket and had also beaten testicular cancer.


The other £45million-winning EuroMillions ticket was bought by a syndicate of seven office workers based in Merseyside.


The winners – dubbed the Magnificent Seven – were employed by Hewlett Packard to carry out IT work at a BT office in Liverpool.


John

Walsh, 57, James Bennett, 28, Sean Connor, 32, Alex Parry, 19, Emma

Cartwright, 23, Ceri Scullion, 35, and Donna Rhodes, 39, each banked

£6.5million.



British EuroMillions ticket-holder scoops entire £107.9m jackpot and becomes UK"s fourth biggest lottery winner

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