Our community members are treated to special offers, promotions and adverts from us and our partners. You can check out at any time. More info A West Lothian lottery winner who scooped a £4 million jackpot has told how her win was tainted with sadness after the death of her husband.
Donna Hendry, 54, told of her heartbreak despite their good fortune in discovering they had won £4,078,509 jackpot. Speaking as the National Lottery celebrates the 30th anniversary of the first ever Lottery tickets being sold, Donna, who lives in West Lothian, and her husband David collected the cheque in January 2015 before David passed away after a short battle with cancer. The couple had been together for most of their lives, 30 years, and married for 23.
They gave up their jobs upon winning and bought a bigger house in the same area. Donna, who also travelled with Elvis fan David to Memphis before he was diagnosed in 2020, said: “He died four months later and our son was only 18 at the time. He’s just graduated with a first, and I know his father would have been so proud.
” Donna was one of a number of Scots who gathered with other winners from throughout the UK to mark the National Lottery’s 30 year mark. Lesley Higgins, 63, and husband Fred, 74, won a staggering £57,975,367 EuroMillions jackpot in July, 2018. The couple now live on a grand 850-acre estate near Perth, purchased after their momentous win which Lesley believes not only changed their lives but saved her husband’s.
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