Colin’s £ 40m lottery spree

Scotland’s biggest lottery winner spent his fortune at a rate of almost £ 100,000 a week, documents reveal.

Colin Weir and his wife Christine, pictured below, scooped a £ 161million EuroMillions jackpot in 2011.

But by the time he died, aged 71, last December his share of the windfall had shrunk by £ 40million.

At the time of his death Colin lived in a £ 1.1million five- bedroom seafront home in Ayr, which he bought in June 2018 after his marriage split.

The former cameraman at STV splashed out on cars and pumped money into his favourite football club, Partick Thistle.

He also shared his fortune with friends and charitable trusts, and passed on money to his two children with Christine – Carly, 32, and Jamie, 30.

Colin’s will shows that when he died suddenly from sepsis and an “acute kidney injury”, he owned furniture, jewellery and artworks valued at about £ 212,000. His garage housed four luxury cars – a vintage Bentley Arnage, worth £ 10,000, a £ 28,250 three- year- old Jaguar F- Pace SUV, a £ 24,000 four- year- old Mercedes Benz E Class Estate and a 2019 Mercedes Benz V Class people carrier, valued at about £ 35,000.

Earlier this year Colin and Christine, originally from Largs, were also unveiled as the biggest donors to the SNP during the last decade, donating over £ 6.4m.

Colin bought a 55 per cent stake in Partick a month before he died so he could donate the club to the fans. Colin had suffered years of ill health and he and Christine divorced last summer after 38 years.

He signed over sole ownership of £ 3.5million Frognal House, near Troon, to former psychiatric nurse Christine. Racing fan Colin also partly owned three thoroughbreds, including geldings Knighted and Felony, and Irish mare If You Say Run.