Thousands of people claim to have won the euromillions rollover jackpot
More than 1,000 people have come forward to claim they are the rightful holders of the missing ?113m Euromillions ticket.
Lottery firm Camelot revealed it had been inundated by people claiming they had lost their ticket to the draw 12 days ago.
Confirming that no valid claim had yet been received, a Camelot spokesman said: ‘We have had over 1,000 lost ticket claims through the post relating to the ?113 million EuroMillions jackpot prize from the draw on Friday October 8.’
The claims, coming from around the country, are understood to include some from people who have admitted they do not even know whether the ticket they mislaid matched the winning numbers.
One woman who has laid claim to the fortune said her ticket matched the missing numbers – but claimed her husband threw it in the bin.
The pensioner says she gave him the ticket for safe-keeping before the EuroMillions draw – and he binned it by mistake.
‘I checked my notepad where I write down my lottery numbers every week after I read in the paper that the winning ticket was bought in Coventry,’ the unnamed woman said.
‘I couldn’t believe it when I realised that my numbers matched the winning ones.
‘I told my husband to get the ticket out and double check. But that’s when he told me that he’d binned it.’
Speculation about the identity of the ticket holder has been centred on the West Midlands since the draw 12 days ago.
The pensioner, who wants to remain anonymous, said: ‘I play every week. I play the lottery, the EuroMillions and the Thunderball but my husband takes the ticket off me and I don’t see it again.
‘That’s why I always write my numbers down. I went down to the newsagent and showed him my pad. He said, “My God! You’re a winner!” but I said, “I’m not a winner – the ticket has been binned”.
‘I’ve turned the house upside down. I’ve looked in his pockets and in my bag and everywhere.
‘I’ve said to my husband, “You’re never going to get another ticket off me”.
‘He loses everything I give him. Only last night I found a lottery ticket that had won ?10 in the bin.’
If they are the rightful winners, the couple, who have been married for more than 50 years, have already lost ?8,500 a day in interest since the draw on October 8.
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