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for life and so is my family – but it’s brought non-stop problems.”

Among those problems is a court case caused when he lost his temper after he was goaded about his win in his local, the Clippens Inn, in Linwood, Renfrewshire, while having a drink with pals in March.

Celtic fan John says he snapped after a customer in the pub called him a “manky millionaire” then threatened to maim his beloved dog and hurled sectarian abuse at him.

At Paisley Sheriff Court last month John admitted assaulting two drinkers in the pub and possessing an offensive weapon, a claw hammer. After the brawl, he decided to live full-time at the £90,000 log cabin in Wemyss Bay which he’d bought a month previously as a holiday home.

Sitting on the deck looking across to the Firth of Clyde, John shakes his head and admitted: “I’m mortified by what I did. I’m ashamed I behaved like that.

“I’m not an angel but I’m not a bad guy. I was badly provoked. I totally accept I was in the wrong.

“But there’s two sides to every story. I just wish I’d gone home earlier and not hung about.”

Sheriff James Spy has already said there’s “no point” fining John as he has so much money it would be little punishment.

Instead, he’s likely to get a long community service order.

John added: “It sounds mad but I’d like the structure the community service would give me and I’m happy to do it. It’s part of putting things right.

“I actually want to go back to work part-time as not working is giving me too much time on my hands and I’m too young to retire.

“I left school at 15 pushing a wheelbarrow, working on the roads and worked my way up to foreman and then gaffer.

“I’m planning to go back next year as a labourer, part-time.”

John worked for big construction firms and studied to be a civil engineer.

But he developed problems with drink and depression, split from his wife Teresa, 43, 10 years ago and then fell out of work.

John and Teresa remain on close terms and John is sharing part of his win with her, including paying for renovations at the house she lives in with John’s two sons and one daughter

John said: “Teresa has been my rock. I’m very lucky my kids have her as their mum.”

John also has an adult daughter Catherine, who accompanied him on his only overseas holiday since the win, a trip to Rome.

Devout Catholic John, who goes to chapel four times a week, took Catherine there with her boyfriend Ross.

“I’d like to go back to Rome,” said John. “But I feel bad spending money on myself. It’s not me to go about being flash. All I want from this win is the children to be looked after and they are.”

When John won, he swapped