Meat driver brings home bacon with £1m card win
A MEAT delivery van driver has won £1m on a National Lottery Scratchcard, which he bought as he popped into a shop to buy a vape to help him quit smoking.
John McFadden, from Southampton, is one of several new millionaires celebrating their Lottery wins during the Easter weekend.
The 63-year-old, who drives vans delivering meat from butchers across the country, said: “I knew I had to do something about my smoking. With the change from buying the vape, I bought a Scratchcard and took it home.
“When I started scratching it off, it said £50,000 under the first number and I thought ‘whoopee!’. I carried on and just kept seeing more and more £50,000s. I thought it was a lot but didn’t know what to believe.”
He said that he first checked his win at the shop where the assistant told him it was too big to pay out in the shop, so he called Camelot to check. He said: “I was just stunned when they said I had in fact actually won £1m and that I was a millionaire – I couldn’t believe it was real.”
Mr McFadden said he will spend his winnings on moving closer to his three children and two grand-daughters and on exotic holidays to the Far East.
On Good Friday, a £122m EuroMillions jackpot, which has now been claimed, was won by a single UK ticket-holder, it has emerged.
In the same draw, a ticketholder also won £1m in the UK Millionaire Raffle, which has also been claimed.
And in Saturday’s Lotto draw, one lucky ticket-holder matched all six main numbers in the rollover to win the £12,523,601 Lotto jackpot.