Could it be you? Just 4 days to claim £58m lottery jackpot

IT is the kind of good fortune most people can only dream of.

One a lucky lottery winner could be on their way to a £58million windfall – but they may yet end up empty-handed.

Lottery chiefs say a claim was made on the jackpot soon after the draw in March, but that ticket is yet to be validated.

The deadline for any winning ticket to be submitted and verified ends on Sunday.

Camelot, operator of the EuroMillions draw, says the fortune has been claimed by someone who bought the ticket in Ayrshire. If the validation is not completed, the massive prize is shared among charities.

The winning numbers were 5, 7, 8, 16, 20, with the lucky stars 2 and 12.

The £58million win would put the winner among the UK’s wealthiest individuals, on a par with pop singer Harry Styles.

Andy Carter, of the National Lottery, said: ‘We’re desperate to find this mystery holder and unite them with this massive prize. We’re urging everyone who might have bought a ticket in this area to check.’

In 2012, a EuroMillions prize fund of £65million was distributed to good causes after the winning ticket, bought in Hertfordshire, went unclaimed. Across all lottery games in 2018, £125.1million went unclaimed. Players are given 180 days to claim their winnings.

The winners of Scotland’s largest lottery pot, Colin and Christine Weir from Ayrshire, won £161million on EuroMillions in 2011.

A Camelot spokesman said: ‘We can confirm that we received a claim on this prize a while ago but we don’t comment on the detail of individual claims.’

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