A 32-year-old man from UK won 1 million pounds in a lottery and has thanked a shopper who let him go first in the queue where he bought the winning ticket. Arron Walshaw, a plasterer, scooped the seven-figure Lotto Raffle prize on Wednesday. He was able to buy the winning ticket at the very last minute, thanks to a woman who let him go before her at the supermarket queue.
"We had a free lucky dip ticket from the previous draw to use and I knew it was only minutes until the draw closed," Mr Walshaw said to BBC.
"I popped in to a nearby shop where me and another lady approached the same cashier, she must have seen that I was in a rush because she insisted I went before her," he said. "What a stroke of luck that turned out to be."
Had the other customer not let him go first, Mr Walshaw believes he would have missed the deadline for the draw.
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He is now using the money to plan his dream wedding with fiancee Ceri Hall, as well as buy a house and a car.
Recently, a lucky Frenchman won a million euros twice in eighteen months on the same lottery.
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