A woman won a million and left her lover (6 photos)

A couple from Spalding, UK, hit the lottery jackpot. 39-year-old Michael Cartlidge and 37-year-old Charlotte Cox won 1 million pounds (more than 116 million rubles). It was only after a couple of weeks that the woman dumped her boyfriend.





“Never before has £1 million brought so much unhappiness,” say friends of the couple.



The couple had only been dating for three months when they hit the jackpot. Michael was staying with Charlotte at the time and they went to the local Lidl to buy duck pancakes for dinner.

He then suggested we go to the nearby Nisa store and buy a couple of scratch cards for £5.

"She said she didn't have the money for the tickets, but I said I'd transfer it to her. We were in the store and I went into my Halifax app because I didn't have my bank card with me. I sent the money. You can see it on the CCTV footage. The signal was bad, so the translation didn't go through in the store, it was just in the process of being transmitted. She paid for two tickets with her card, and when she got home, she wiped off the protective layer," Cartlidge recalls.

He opened the app after about 40 minutes and the transfer was completed.

To their amazement, one of the scratch cards made £1 million. They spent the entire evening taking pictures with her and couldn’t believe their luck.





The next day they went to the store to confirm their winnings. They were given a pink ticket with the inscription: “Tell the player to contact the lottery organizers.”

Michael claims they discussed buying a house and car after receiving their winnings.

He recalls: “Everything went well, we wrote Charlotte’s name on the back of the ticket, but the amount had to be transferred to a joint account.”

But just a couple of weeks later, Charlotte broke off the relationship. Michael took the card and moved in with his mother.

“I contacted the Camelot staff who were handling our winnings and gave them the card. They received CCTV footage from the store, which clearly shows me showing Charlotte and the woman behind the cash register that the application on the phone is working and the money is being transferred. They also "They interviewed the employee, and she confirmed everything. As far as I know, after that it was decided that we would split the money."



However, on February 10, the new management sent Michael a letter saying that he was not entitled to a penny.

Charlotte responded to the “nonsense” statements: “I bought a ticket. He didn’t transfer the money to me. All this is nonsense, I don’t even want to discuss it.”

One of the woman's relatives added: "You shouldn't believe a word this man says. He ruined the last three months of her family. Michael has no right to this money. He's not a good person. Charlotte won, she paid for the ticket and erased the protective layer."



The new owners of the Allwyn lottery said only the person whose name is written on the back of the lottery ticket can claim a prize.



The Spalding engineer claims he is entitled to half the money and is ready to take legal action.

“I’m shocked. I admit that we would not have received this ticket without Charlotte, but she would not have received it without me. I know that she paid for the purchase, but from a moral point of view everything should be 50/50,” I am sure British