I won £145,000 in the Postcode Lottery and left my work on the spot
A mother-of-two won £145,000 after winning the Postcode Lottery – but her neighbor won TRIPLE.
Kayleigh Burnett was just one of nine people on a street in Cleethorpes who were told about the ‘life-changing’ amount they had just secured.
Residents with the postcode DN35 7UG shared a whopping £3.2 million on Saturday.
One of the lucky winners was primary school worker Kayleigh who immediately FaceTimed her husband to tell him the good news while he was at a fish stall.
She said: ‘I thought I might win enough to get my windows done, but never in a million years did I ever think I would win that much.
“It will make life a lot more comfortable. We will take my two little boys on a very nice holiday.”
Her husband Guy, 39, said on the phone: “Jesus! I can’t believe that.”
The People’s Postcode Lottery called Kayleigh that week to tell her she had won an undisclosed amount.
She immediately ran into the principal’s office and asked for a day off.
She said to her boss: “The Postcode Lottery is on the phone and has said that I have won something, can I take a day off, so that they can come to my door.
“It’s been a strange week to say the least. My head is still spinning.”
The couple now plans to take their two children, Isaac, 8, and Elias, 4, on vacation.
However, her neighbor Bill Cobley, 74, took the big prize.
The pensioner won £436,363 after playing three tickets.
The enthusiastic gardener says: “We used to win a few prizes for our vegetables, but this is a prize I never expected to win.
“It’s beyond my wildest dreams. People like us don’t just make that kind of money.”
Mr Cobley believes the £3.2 million win will lift spirits in the region.
NHS nurse Lesley Craig, 57, has also scooped a six-figure sum. She said: “It hasn’t sunk in yet.
“I think we can have a nice vacation until then.”
Victims of the lottery ‘curse’
A LOT of us dream of winning big in the lottery, but what about when you actually do it? Isn’t it all flashy cars and glamorous photo shoots, and maybe the odd movie premiere? That wasn’t the case for this group, who – despite raking in millions of pounds – ended up in the hole.
Cocaine king
Self-styled King Of Chavs Michael Carroll wore an electronic anklet when he won £9.7million on the National Lottery in 2002.
He was 19 years old at the time and squandered his fortune on a six-bedroom country house in Norfolk, which he equipped with a swimming pool and a motor racing track.
His drug addiction caused Michael to spend £2,000 a day on cocaine, which ultimately left him destitute.
He previously said: “The dealer who introduced me to crack has more of my lottery money than I do.”
Michael’s wife Sandra left him just a month after their wedding in 2003 after being shocked by his incessant partying. She also accused him of cheating on her with sex workers and making off with £1.4 million in a settlement.
He spent time in prison for failing to comply with a drug treatment order and was declared bankrupt in February 2010 and claiming Jobseeker’s Allowance.
Michael was reportedly found working for £10 an hour chopping wood and delivering coal in 2019 after losing his entire fortune.
Surgery Queen
Jane Park became the youngest Briton ever to win the EuroMillions when she won the £1 million jackpot in 2013 at the age of 17.
At the time she won, she was a temporary worker earning £8 an hour, living in a two-bedroom flat in Edinburgh council that she shared with her mother Linda.
But things got worse when she felt ’empty’ after her win and spent £4.5k on a breast enlargement from 34B to 36FF and another couple of thousand on a Brazilian Butt Lift (BBL) in Turkey.
Jane feared for her life after suffering a severe reaction to anesthesia and contracting sepsis in 2017.
Two years later, she launched her OnlyFans to flash topless photos of herself, followed by more plastic surgery to get her ‘dream body’ with liposuction and a corrective BBL.
Now 28 and wiser, she believes winning the lottery cursed her life and wishes it never happened.
She hilariously calls herself the ‘B&M Molly-Mae’.
Love and loss
Gillian Bayford’s eight-year marriage was destroyed when she and ex-husband Adrian raised £148million at the EuroMillions in 2012.
Their lives changed overnight, putting so much strain on their relationship that it broke down completely 15 months after their victory.
Both Gillian, 50, and Adrian blamed the stress of their stunning victory for their split.
In the decade following their divorce, Gillian became a mother to another man at the age of 48, bought a £1.2 million mansion and started a property business.
“As far as [my daughter] worries I’m not a lottery winner, I’m just a mum,” Gillian told The Sun. “Some things are easier because of the money, but it doesn’t really change anything.
“You still have to change a diaper or deal with her being sick of you, no matter how much you’re worth.”