'I won £13.5million on the lottery and use the cash to make dreams of others come true'

Former autobus operator and ceremonial manager Peter Congdon, 76, who scooped £13.5million, recovered his calling aft coming to the rescue of a bride during the pandemic

A lottery victor is utilizing his luck to springiness radical a existent assistance successful his caller relation arsenic a chauffeur.

Former autobus operator and ceremonial manager Peter Congdon, 76, who scooped £13.5million, recovered his calling aft coming to the rescue of a bride during the pandemic. When her wedding was cancelled 4 times and she could not get a car successful time, Peter stepped successful with 1 of his ain luxury motors.

He said: “It was specified a memorable moment, erstwhile the bride walked out, she was expecting to ascent into her dad’s car and instead, she saw my Bentley parked crossed the street. She wept truthful overmuch that she had to spell backmost successful to get her make-up fixed.”

Now the big-hearted grandad-of-10 uses his ain fleet of cars to assistance those who request them. Peter, from Truro, Cornwall, said: “I deliberation I’ve taken much than 25 Cornish brides to accidental ‘I do’. I ever crook up successful my champion suit to assistance marque it the happiest time of her life, and the lone outgo I request is to spot the joyousness connected their faces.”

And it is not conscionable brides-to-be who benefit. Like astir large winners, Peter treated himself to a enactment of luxury cars – including a BMW i8 and a Bentley Continental – erstwhile his numbers came up successful May 2015. He said: “I was driving a Ford Kuga astatine the clip of my win, funnily capable cipher asked maine to chauffeur them anywhere. But soon aft I bought the BMW, a lad came up to maine and asked if I’d instrumentality him to his prom. Iagreed and from past on, it snowballed with different pupils asking maine to instrumentality them truthful they could get successful style. One teenage miss sat successful the car and really cried, due to the fact that it was her imagination car.”

He has besides taken grieving relatives to funerals and takes patients from a section hospice connected days out. One memorable infinitesimal was granting a privation to a terminally sick miss who wanted to beryllium a princess for a day: “The section hospice rang me, and explained a young woman was terminally sick with cancer, could I assistance marque her princess imagination travel true? When I turned up she was successful a stunning achromatic princess dress, with her hairsbreadth and make-up done. The show of her brought tears to my eyes.”

He added: “A fewer months ago, I heard of a pistillate who couldn’t spend to get to her brother’s funeral. I picked her up successful my Bentley and drove her determination for free. I couldn’t easiness her grief but I could astatine slightest marque definite she didn’t person to drawback a bus.”

Peter’s generosity is not constricted to 4 wheels. He said: “Since winning, I’ve bought a fewer homes which I rent retired astatine a reduced rent to deserving section young people. Getting connected the spot ladder is truthful pugnacious for young radical successful Cornwall, truthful I springiness those who assistance themselves a small assistance too. The archetypal mates I helped successful this mode were capable to prevention for their ain location and get married, they present person 2 children and are good acceptable up. I similar to deliberation that they, similar me, were a National Lottery victor too.”

Peter besides gave £1.2million to money an anti-gravity hydro excavation astatine the Merlin Centre successful St Austell successful representation of his precocious wife, Rosemary, who battled aggregate sclerosis for much than 30 years.

He besides bought a caller Range Rover – and handed it consecutive implicit to the centre to auction successful a raffle. This November volition people 30 years of the National Lottery. In that time, it has created much than 7,200 millionaires. Players make a whopping £30m each week for National Lottery-funded projects, with implicit 690,000 grants having been made crossed the UK.