A MUM-of-two scooped £145,000 on the Postcode Lottery win – but her neighbour won TRIPLE.
Kayleigh Burnett was just one of nine people on a Cleethorpes street who were told about the “life changing” sum they had just bagged.
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Residents with the DN35 7UG postcode split the whopping £3.2m win 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 on a fish stall.
She said: “I thought I would maybe win enough to get my windows done, but never in a million years did I ever think I would win this much.
“It will make life a bit more comfortable. We will take my two little boys on a really nice holiday.”
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Her husband Guy, 39, said down the phone: “Jesus! I can’t believe that.”
The People’s Postcode Lottery called Kayleigh up that week to tell her she had won an undisclosed amount.
She ran into the headteacher’s office immediately and asked for the day off.
She told her boss: “The Postcode Lottery are on the phone, and have said I’ve won something, can I have the day off so they can come to my door.
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“It’s been a strange week to say the least. My head is still spinning.”
The couple are now planning on taking their two children, Isaac, 8, and Elias, 4, on holiday.
However, her neighbour Bill Cobley, 74, pocketed the big prize.
The pensioner scooped £436,363 after playing three tickets.
The keen gardener said: “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 come into that sort of money.”
Mr Cobley feels the £3.2m win will lift spirits in the area.
NHS nurse Lesley Craig, 57, also bagged a six-figure sum. She said: “It’s not sunk in yet.
“I think until it does, we can go on a nice holiday.”
Victims of the Lottery ‘curse’
MANY of us dream of winning big on the lottery but what about if you actually do? Surely it’s all flash cars and glam photoshoots, and maybe the odd film premiere? That wasn’t the case for this bunch, who – despite scooping millions of pounds – found themselves down in the dumps.
Cocaine King
The self-styled King Of Chavs Michael Carroll was wearing an electronic ankle tag when he scooped £9.7 million on the National Lottery in 2002.
He was aged 19 at the time and splurged his fortune on a six-bedroom mansion in Norfolk, which he kitted out with a swimming pool and car racing track.
Michael’s drug addiction saw him spending £2k a day on cocaine and eventually left him penniless.
He previously said: “The dealer who introduced me to crack has more of my lotto money than I do.”
Michael’s wife Sandra left him just a month after their wedding in 2003 after being appalled by his incessant partying. She also accused him of cheating on her with sex workers, walking away with £1.4million in a settlement.
He suffered a stint in jail for failing to comply with a drug treatment order and by February 2010 was declared bankrupt and claiming Jobseekers’ Allowance.
Michael was reportedly found working for £10 an hour chopping wood and delivering coal in 2019 after he lost his entire fortune.
Surgery Queen
Jane Park was the youngest ever Brit to win the EuroMillions when she scooped the £1 million jackpot aged 17 in 2013.
At the time of her win, she was an admin temp earning £8-an-hour, and was living in a two-bedroom Edinburgh council flat she shared with her mum Linda.
But things took a turn for the worse when she felt “empty” after her win and splurged £4.5k on a boob job 34B to 36FF and another few thousand on a Brazilian Butt Lift (BBL) in Turkey.
Jane was left fearing for her life after having a severe reaction to the anaesthetic and contracting sepsis back in 2017.
Two years later, she launched her OnlyFans to flog topless pictures 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 she wishes it never happened.
Hilariously, she refers to herself as the ‘B&M Molly-Mae’.
Love and Loss
Gillian Bayford’s eight-year marriage was destroyed when she and ex-husband Adrian scooped £148 million on the EuroMillions in 2012.
Their lives changed overnight and put so much strain on their relationship, it totally broke down 15 months after their win.
Both Gillian, 50, and Adrian blamed the stress from their mind-boggling win as the root cause of their divorce.
In the decade following their divorce, Gillian became a mum at 48 years old with another man, purchased a £1.2 million mansion and started a property business.
“As far as [my daughter] is concerned I’m not a lottery winner, I’m just 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 nappy or deal with her being sick on you regardless of how much you’re worth.”
