Previous lottery winners send congratulations to Liverpool lottery winners

Nov 10 2009 by Ben Schofield, Liverpool Daily Post

THE EUROMILLIONS draw had given the UK its three largest lottery wins before the £91m was won here on Friday.

Angela Kelly, from Glasgow, was the previous biggest winner after scooping £35,425,411.80.

In June, £26.5m was paid out to an anonymous winner and Brian Caswell, of Bolton, won £24,9m.

They are followed in the rundown by two winning tickets in the domestic game – £22.590,829, which was shared by Paul Maddison and Mark Gardiner, of Hastings, in June 1995, and £20,100,472, won by Iris Jeffrey, of Belfast, in July 2004.

Last night, past winners sent their congratulations to the latest lottery multimillionaires.

Ms Kelly said: “I want to congratulate the lucky winners on taking my National Lottery title.

“My win has enabled me to bring a great deal of happiness to my friends and family, which has in turn made me very happy.”

Mr Gardiner said: “I’d say to the winner – enjoy yourself, do the one thing you have always wanted to do or buy, treat yourself with an impulse purchase, and then take two steps back to let it all sink in.”

One of Merseyside’s biggest winners was David Ashcroft, a carpenter from Mossley Hill, who won £12.3m in 1997. He kept his job in the same workshop and carried on living with his parents.

In August 2004, Cheshire teenager and petrol station cashier Hayley Morrish played a scratch-card during a quiet shift and won £1m.

The 17-year-old, from Tarvin, paid for the ticket out of her weekly £100 wage packet, which she had just picked up.

Friday’s numbers were 11, 19, 34, 43 and 45. The Lucky Star numbers were 5 and 9.