Lotto success for dad-of-two

A man from Huntingdon is celebrating after here vealed a £250,000 top prize on a Super 7s Scratchcard from National Lottery Game Store. Jeremiah Johnson (39) had popped into his local supermarket on the way home from work when he bought the winning Scratch card. Once home, and with his wife Joy (38) making supper, the father of two sat down in front of the TV and decided to play. He said: “I wasn’t really paying attention to the TV or the game until I saw that I had revealed four matching symbols and the caption below was £250,000. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing, uttered a couple of choice words and then triple and quadruple checked it again. “I enjoy playing the odd National Lottery Scratchcard and have had some nice wins along the way but nothing of this size. I genuinely never played believing I would have a big win so when that £250,000 winning symbol was glaring back at me I just couldn’t fathom it. I asked Joy to look but she said she had no idea how to play!”

With Jeremiah’s £250,000 win safely in his bankaccount the US government employee, originally from North Carolina, can start to make plans for the future.

He said: “We will use some of the winto clear some loans, a large portion will be put into a college fund for our two children, another portion for a few more bits of furniture and the rest will be a nice little nestegg for the future.”

Jeremiah and Joy Johnson