I scooped £66k on Postcode Lottery but don’t even LIVE there – small decision paid off & my dream has come true

A LUCKY punter who scooped £66k on the Postcode Lottery despite not even living there has revealed how one small decision paid off for him.

Chris Rose, 65, from Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, says his dream has come true after touchdown a candy £66,666 within the lotto.

Every of the winners in Saturday’s Folk’s Postcode Lottery contrivance pocketed on the least £66,666 out of the total £1million on offer.

The lotto punter used to dwell on Crown Avenue sooner than shifting to the neighbouring town of Lancing two years within the past.

But Chris’ decision to withhold playing along with his outdated postcode supposed he used to be also one of the fortunate winners when the relate popped up within the contrivance.

He acknowledged: “When I moved, I signed up with my new postcode and selected to withhold fiddling with my outdated postcode.

“It’s all came true, and I’ve won the worthy one.”

“It’s paid off in bonus stamps as smartly! You’ve got to speculate to gain as they dispute.”

The auto mechanic is now going to earn an very perfect time his upcoming retirement standard with an scamper vacation – and investing in an normal 1957 Lambretta scooter.

He acknowledged, “I retire on the kill of this month so this could not earn come at a higher time.

“I could perhaps well cherish to conclude a Safari in Africa or even scamper to the opposite facet of the field to understand the penguin stroll.”

In the period in-between, Ken McNeill, 70, a take engineer, is now going up on the earth after profitable £133,332, thanks to having two tickets.

He quick made a video call to his son, Nigel, 42, at work to show him he’d won the same.

Ken acknowledged: “It’s proper son. Unquestionably worthy potatoes.”

Nigel had been working on elevators in North London sooner than returning to his van for the uplifting call.

After getting the information, he acknowledged: “That’s true changed my life. £133,000! I will’t earn it.”

Self-employed Nigel didn’t are looking for to lose out on a day’s work and determined to build in a shift as a replace of ready for the lottery to flip up at his door.

The dad-of-two acknowledged: “The Postcode Lottery phoned me and acknowledged they’d be visiting my avenue with a shock, but I couldn’t omit out on the work. But when I observed the quantity, I packed up my instruments and drove house.” 

Nigel acknowledged information of his procure quick unfold spherical the constructing location and he’s now got a brand new nickname – Millionaire Man.

He acknowledged: “When I stroll into a room or within the direction of the [building] location, guys earn been announcing, ‘Right here he is – the Millionaire Man’.

“It’s all been beautiful natured, and everyone has been congratulating me.”

He added: “It couldn’t be a million, but to me, that is love profitable a million.”

Nigel now plans to build down a deposit on a condo and is treating his two children to a long overdue vacation.

He acknowledged: “With a figuring out to aquire my possess location and kind out my children is true a huge weight off my shoulders.

 “I booked a vacation for me and the youngsters, but it got cancelled due to the Covid, so I true had to withhold my head down working within the hope that I could perhaps well re-e-book it one day.”

Nigel also basked in his folks’ jackpot pleasure – with dad Ken, 70, and mum Jenny, 66, celebrating a “mind-blowing” procure.

He acknowledged: “I’m over the moon figuring out my folks earn won as smartly. They’ve done a lot for me and to now know they’re position skill a lot.”

Ken, a retired Brighton taxi driver, revealed his lad had convinced him to inaugurate up playing the lottery. And he won only weeks after signing up.

He acknowledged: “Nigel acknowledged I must give it a scamper, so I command I earn him to thank. I even signed up with two tickets because he plays with two.”

And Ken could perhaps well additionally earn his wife Jenny to thank after signing up on the same day she retired as a Housekeeping Assistant at Southlands Sanatorium on December 1, 2023.

Ken lately smartly-known his seventieth birthday and acknowledged his cash windfall used to be the “icing on the cake.”

Grandparents-of-three Ken and Jenny haven’t but determined on a vacation destination but figuring out on taking a damage after a ‘noteworthy’ final six years.

In the period in-between, neighbours who won £180,000 on the Folk’s Postcode Lottery earn been told their desire checklist used to be monotonous.

And a couple who won £60,000 on the Folk’s Postcode Lottery lately revealed how they earn been in a position to double their winnings.