The National Lottery’s biggest winners – and those who blew the lot to end up penniless

£15M Lottery victor Tom Naylor with his 7 cars, 1 for each time of the week. (Image: Tim Harley-Easthope)

The National Lottery celebrates its 30th day connected Tuesday aft transforming thousands of lives and backing a aureate procreation of British Olympians. The motorboat gully took spot connected Saturday, November 19, 1994, connected a unrecorded TV amusement hosted by a then-45-year-old Noel Edmonds.

It was watched by 22 cardinal radical arsenic lottery frenzy gripped the country.

The jackpot of £5.6million was jointly shared by 7 fortunate players. The winning numbers were 3, 5, 14, 22, 30 and 44 – and the bonus shot was 10.

Ken Southwell, from York, celebrated his £839,254 jackpot successful his section pub by borrowing wealth to bargain everyone a round.

Ken soon recovered himself retired of a occupation arsenic a TV installer erstwhile his tendency to crook retired connected a acold wintertime time was questioned.

But helium went connected to acceptable up his ain palmy business, buying spot including 2 pubs and a beverage room, and continued to unrecorded successful the assemblage wherever helium was raised.

However, the father-of-three died from a encephalon tumour conscionable 12 years later.

The archetypal large victor was Mukhtar Mohidin, 42, who picked up £17.9million the pursuing period from a six-week ­rollover. The mill displacement idiosyncratic was snubbed by the strict Muslim assemblage due to the fact that of his gambling and fled his terraced location successful Blackburn, yet settling successful Berkshire.

He changed his sanction to Mike and claimed to beryllium an concern banker.

A alternatively acrimonious divorcement followed and helium plunged into a beingness of parties, escorts and London casinos. He is present buried successful an unmarked sedate aft dying from alcohol-related kidney and liver problems, aged 64.

Ken Southwell acceptable up his ain palmy concern (Image: Daily Mirror)

Since that archetypal draw, 7,200 players person go Lotto millionaires, 43,000 person won much than £50,000 and £9billion has been paid retired successful prize money.

While its popularity has waned from those aboriginal days, 50 per cent of adults inactive bargain a summons astatine slightest erstwhile a month.

Other winners person been the 695,000 community, health, acquisition and practice “good cause” projects, arsenic good arsenic the arts and sport, which person received £47billion.

The wealth besides transformed Team GB Olympic and Paralympic teams.

From Atlanta successful 1996, wherever they picked up a azygous gold, they became power­­house performers achieving a memorable 3rd successful the wide array successful London 2012 with 29 golds. More precocious successful Paris they delivered different summertime of occurrence with 65 medals, including 14 golds.

So what’s it similar ne'er to person to interest astir wealth again? Six successful 10 jackpot winners discontinue their jobs wrong 2 months, often without telling their brag the existent reason.

Tesco doubly recovered itself short-staffed erstwhile abstracted syndicates of workers – 1 sharing £7.5million and the different £15million – near en masse.

Half instrumentality the accidental to acceptable up their ain business. In 1996 Belfast autobus operator Peter Lavery pocketed £10.2million.

After assorted ventures helium bought a historical tract successful the erstwhile metropolis docks, launching Titanic distillery and producing the archetypal whiskey successful Belfast for 90 years.

He said: “It has surely changed my beingness and the lives of a batch of different people, too. I conscionable privation to make thing that lasts and gives radical a future.”

He added: “When you bargain a lottery summons you imagination of having occurrence but you ne'er deliberation it’ll come. You aftermath up the adjacent greeting and inactive dreaming, but there’s reality. I’ve worked each my life. I don’t spot wherefore I should stop.”

Peter Lavery acceptable up a distillery with his luck (Image: BBC/NPE Media Ltd/Chris Mills)

Some winners don’t person specified a palmy time, though. When Roger Griffiths, an IT manager from Wetherby, West Yorkshire, won £1.83million helium tried to go a stone star.

In existent David Brent benignant helium splurged £25,000 connected releasing a record, lone to spot it merchantability conscionable 600 copies. He ended up penniless, surviving with his parents and his matrimony successful tatters pursuing a drawstring of arsenic mediocre investments.

Still dreaming of that deed record, helium is present penning a publication astir his experiences.

Others combined their existing jobs portion inactive enjoying their caller lifestyle.

Sue Richards, from Essex, continues to enactment arsenic a specializer carer, contempt winning £3million. She has splashed retired connected a caller home, 4 cars, a centrifugal home, regular holidays overseas and helped her children connected to the spot ladder.

Sue Richards with spouse Barry Maddox won £3million. (Image: Joe Giddens/PA Wire)

But lavish surviving is not for all, and these sensible souls are known successful lottery circles arsenic the “Unchanged”. Train operator Carl Prance, 50, from Cardiff, spent a twelvemonth lying connected sun-kissed beaches aft picking up £7million, lone to determine helium was really acold happier backmost connected the railways.

Lottery advisers suggest that winners instrumentality clip earlier making decisions.

A holiday, caller car and a caller location are apical of spending privation lists. A 3rd pitchy disconnected to Walt Disney World successful Florida, often taking a charter flight. The favoured prime for a caller acceptable of wheels is simply a Range Rover, with 1 per cent opting for a Lamborghini.

Former lorry operator Tom Naylor, 64, from South Staffordshire, knew what helium wanted aft years of sitting successful postulation jams.

After pocketing £15.5million helium bought a car for each time of the week, including a Rolls Royce and a Peugeot for the travel to the supermarket. He said: “I bash emotion my cars and winning specified a ample magnitude has enabled maine to indulge my passion.”

One successful 5 winners inactive unrecorded successful the aforesaid location they had erstwhile they won, and those who determination thin to enactment successful the aforesaid area.

Generally, winners eschew sprawling mansions, and bargain 4 oregon five-bed caller builds.

Michael Carroll blew his luck (Image: PA Archive/Press Association Images)

Infamous “lotto lout” Michael Carroll, from Swaffham, Norfolk, who won £9.7million aged 19, went connected an eight-year bender of debauched living, clocking up 30 tribunal appearances and serving 9 months for affray. When broke helium returned to his autochthonal Scotland wherever helium linked up with his ex-wife. They person remarried and helium is moving arsenic a garbage collector.

The astir secretive was an Australian backpacker touring the UK who turned up unannounced astatine Lottery office successful Watford, and presented a amazed receptionist with a winning jackpot ticket.

He refused each help, initially adjacent declining to supply an address.

Four days aboriginal helium was jetting backmost location £2million richer. erstwhile his individuality and the summons helium bought checked out.