A lucky lottery winner has won a staggering £10.6.million but is yet to come forward and claimed their huge sum of money – as they are now urged to act quick before it’s gone
It could be you! While we all may dream of winning the lottery one day and what we’d do with our fortunes – one winner still hasn’t come forward to cash in their prize.
The anonymous winning ticket holder has won a staggering £10.6 million in the National Lottery draw that took place five months ago, and is being urged to act quickly before their prize is withdrawn and they lose out on the life changing sum.
The unclaimed ticket was bought in Bexley, South-East London, and matched all six numbers in the draw on October 4, and now the winner has until April 2 to claim their winnings.
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Players have 180 days to claim their win and Kathy Garrett, winners’ advisor at Allwyn, operator of The National Lottery said: “We want nothing more than to unite the winner with their life changing prize. We really want to pay this out. We’ve got the champagne ready. It is not that common for a prize of this size to go unclaimed.”
Now the advisor has told everyone who bought a ticket in the Bexley area to “check down the back of sofas, pockets or drawers” to cross-check their numbers. She added: “If it was a lucky dip ticket, people wouldn’t necessarily know their numbers. Someone in the Bexley area is sitting on a £10.6m prize and they don’t know it.”
Garrett said the National Lottery team would be in Bexley on Wednesday to encourage people to check their previous tickets and said if the winner did not come forward before April 2, the prize pot would be distributed to the National Lottery’s “good causes”.
It comes after one lucky mum toasted becoming the UK’s 8,000th Lotto millionaire – with champagne in a plastic cup from her office water cooler. Lindsey Barnes, 44, bagged the seven-figure sum after buying a last-minute Lucky Dip ticket on her phone.
The next day she was with colleagues at the lighting factory where she works as a technician when she discovered she’d hit the jackpot. And to celebrate, she took her husband and kids on a trip to the Snow Centre in Manchester – for a surprise snowboarding lesson with two-time Olympic snowboarder, Aimee Fuller.
Lindsay, who lives with her partner of five years, Paul Roach, 47, said: “It was a boring ‘mum moment’, when I was having five minutes’ peace after a long day, that I treated myself to that Lotto Lucky Dip on my phone!
“It’s amazing, one magic moment has changed everything for us.”
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