76 year old cabbie named as £26m Euromillions lottery winner

News of the British Euromillions £26.1m lottery winner have now been announced and Lotto Hideout can reveal that George Sturt aged 76 from Dorking in Surrey is the lucky winner.  George who refuses - even in spite of his big win – to give up his day job as a taxi driver because he enjoys the job so much -shares the win with his three children, Gary, Colin and Teresa.  Widower Mr Sturt plans to give a lot of his share of the cash to charitable causes including cancer research as his wife Maureen sadly died 6 months ago after battling with cancer.

Family thought it was a joke

His grown up children could not believe that they had won the jackpot when Mr Sturt first informed them as he is, reportedly well known by all the family as a bit of a joker. The siblings and Mr Sturt pay£4 each per week to participate in the lottery never thinking for one minute that they would be the lucky winners of such a huge sum. Each one of the family members will receive over £6m each which should provide sufficient funds to organise a big family knees up which is now to be planned to celebrate their good fortune.

Happens to other people …..

The part time cabbie has eight grandchildren and two great grandchildren who are also likely to benefit from the family’s new found wealth.  Mr Stur’s son Colin, a builder is quoted in the Sun as saying “I am honestly still in a state of shock.
"This sort of thing happens to other people and not people like us - it is absolutely crazy.  
And "It will be difficult to go back to building houses when you can afford to buy any house that you want."