Couple who scooped £115m jackpot in EuroMillions draw poised to go public

A COUPLE WHO began the new year with a massive lottery win are expected to go public today.

The couple from County Armagh, in Northern Ireland, scooped the near-£115m jackpot in the New Year’s Day EuroMillions draw.

Camelot said the winners would attend a press conference in Belfast today.

Camelot said the couple won the £114,969,775.70 jackpot and became the fourth biggest winner in UK history.

A further 10 players also pocketed £1m each in the New Year’s Day draw.

Camelot said the prize money would be paid when the ticket is validated.

Andy Carter, senior winners’ adviser at The National Lottery, said: “Imagine kicking off the New Year with an extra £114m to your name.

“What an amazing win and year ahead for one lucky UK ticket-holder.

“This win ranks at number four in the list of the biggest ever National Lottery winners and we look forward to helping them begin to enjoy their win.”

The winning main EuroMillions numbers were 01, 08, 11, 25, 28 and the winning EuroMillions Lucky Star numbers were 04 and 06.

The New Year’s Day win follows a series of high profile lottery prizes in recent years.

In July 2011, Colin and Chris Weir, from Ayrshire, Scotland, became the biggest lottery winners in the UK, and across Europe, when they scooped more than £161m.

Adrian and Gillian Bayford, from Suffolk, took home more than £148m in August 2012.

And last November, builder Andrew Clark, 51, from Boston, Lincolnshire, discovered he had won £76m, six weeks after the draw.