A MAN won over £100,000 on the People’s Postcode Lottery through a little-known loophole. The winner, who wished to remain nameless, secured the £111,111 jackpot along with eight other lucky winners in Blaydon, Gateshead . The former resident landed the prize despite not having lived in the property for over two years.
It comes after he revealed that he had kept hold of his ticket for the address even after moving. He told The Shields Gazette that he had kept the ticket on the "off chance" it would win. Both him and mother of two, Christina Veitch, who had bought the house, expressed shock at their unexpected reuniting when he arrived back on the street to collect his winning cheque.
Read More on Money Christina and he shared £1m with seven neighbours in Blaydon-on-Tyne after NE21 5GB landed the Postcode Lottery’s weekly Millionaire Street prize on Saturday, August 10th. Each winning ticket was worth a whopping £111,111. The previous owner said: “It’s mad, isn’t it.
It’s the house! We moved away about two and a half years ago, but I decided to keep the ticket. "It was just on the off chance that I won, and it looks like that’s happened. Most read in Money "I didn’t think you’d be knocking at my old door.
I’d recommend this to anyone. Always keep your ticket on the off chance.” Christina, 33, had joined the Postcode Lottery two years ago when she moved into the semi with her husband and two children.
She first found out she had won while watching the .