Shop keeper tried to claim lottery winner’s £1m jackpot for himself

A shop worker has admitted attempting to falsely claim a £1m (€1.2m) lottery prize.

Farrakh Nizzar told great-grandmother Maureen Holt, 77, she had won nothing when he scanned her EuroMillions ticket at a shop in Oldham, Greater Manchester.

He told her he would throw the ticket in the bin for her but later phoned a lottery hotline to say it was he who had bought the jackpot ticket.