1 Person wins £35 Million Jackpot but....

[Mendoza]

I was reading the Metro on the way to work this morning and its says that the winner is Angela Kelly, a postal worker from East Kilbride

Get to work and read the Argus, its says that Fergus Franter from Bognor Regis has won the same jackpot

So who won? Who is lying?

Both stories say the jackpot was £35,425,411.80 and both stories say the winning numbers were 23, 40, 42, 49 and lucky star numbers 2 and 6

 

[Starry]

the press conference is later today and is live from falkirk so i guess the scot?

 

[empire]

sussex guys a joker

 

[Wozza]

Argus obv didn't check their sources.

 

[chobby]

Argus obv didn't check their sources.

I thought NSC was their source for everything

 

[Beach Hut]

And she is stated as Angela Cunningham in the Times !

 

[sully]

And she is stated as Angela Cunningham in the Times !

Perhaps because she is separated but not divorced. Trying to put her hubby off the scent!!

 

[Wozza]

Saw a picture of the hubby looking glum. Unlucky mate!

 

[magoo]

the sussex bloke played a prank in his family and the DINS at the argus picked up on it and reported it as fact. They've changed it now.

 

[Beach Hut]

According to the Standard headline the lady in question is leaving the country

 

[Cian]

do you've no right to privacy on lotto jackpots in the UK? Here we never find out who most of the winners are.

 

[Beach Hut]

do you've no right to privacy on lotto jackpots in the UK? Here we never find out who most of the winners are.

You have a right to not go live but I suspect Camelot are keen you do

 

[Cian]

You have a right to not go live but I suspect Camelot are keen you do

So are the lotto here, they even offer you another 30 grand to do it; but in the 80s (we had a lotto before you), the IRA/LVF/UVF/INLA et al used to threaten anyone that did go public, so few do...

 

[csider]

So are the lotto here, they even offer you another 30 grand to do it; but in the 80s (we had a lotto before you), the IRA/LVF/UVF/INLA et al used to threaten anyone that did go public, so few do...

Why did they not want anyone to go public??

The winner from Scotland will rack up £21k pw in interest!!

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Why did they not want anyone to go public??

That's the point, they did want them to go public.

So they could get to them and demand money for their campaigns.

 

[Yorkie]

the sussex bloke played a prank in his family and the DINS at the argus picked up on it and reported it as fact. They've changed it now.

He didn't just pull a prank but lied and now has disappeared.


wrongly telling his family that he had scooped Britain's biggest ever lottery jackpot.

Fergus Frater, from Bognor, told friends and family he had landed the £35,425,411.80 Euromillions rollover.

He is believed to have promised £5 million to his son and £1 million to a sister.

But now he has vanished - as it emerged he had not won the fortune after all.

Instead the jackpot was picked up by a Scottish postal worker Angela Kelly, 40, from East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire.

Mr Frater phoned relatives and pals in Bognor to tell them he had won the lottery payout at the weekend.

But his family have been unable to get in touch with him since then.

Speaking from her home in Tamarisk Close, Bersted, Mr Fergus' sister, Lorraine, told The Argus her brother said he was planning to put his feet up and return to his native Scotland.

She said: "He told me he won the lottery and has just totally disappeared off the face of the Earth ever since."

Rumours began to circulate that the winner of Britain's ever biggest lotto jackpot came from the Bognor area yesterday morning.

The draw of the lucky balls 23, 40, 42, 43 and 49 and lucky star numbers 2 and 6 was made on Friday night but lay unclaimed until Monday.

Some said the golden ticket was bought from Morrisons in Bedford Street, Bognor.

A member of staff at the store said one woman customer had told colleagues that her relative was the winner.

 

[Lady Bracknell]

I thought the whole point of the story was that some fantasy merchant had claimed to win the lottery. Not that he had won it!

 

[Mrs Coach]

Yes, when I went back and re-read it, having realised someone else was claiming to have won it on another newspaper, and saw it said he 'claimed' to have won. The wording was confusing though as I took it he HAD won!