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.

Shop keeper tried to claim lottery winner’s £1m jackpot for himself
Thu, 02 Aug, 2012 - 01:00
Kim Pilling

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.

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