Lotto winner proves ticket was legitimate

A Stirlingshire woman who won an amazing £3.5million on the national lottery has contacted a local newspaper in a bid to refute claims that her lucky win was not legitimate.

30 year old Karan Smith saw her winnings come under threat when her Mother Anne was accused of foul play by her fellow lottery syndicate members.

Anne was entrusted with the task of purchasing lucky dip lotto tickets for her office syndicate, but advised members that she had not bought the tickets for the draw which took place on Christmas Eve as she had not collected the syndicate's subs for December.

After finding out that Karan had won the jackpot for the draw, members of the syndicate accused Anne of giving the tickets to her daughter in order to avoid splitting the cash with the syndicate.

In a bid to prove that the ticket was hers, Karan contacted the Daily record Newspaper in Scotland and presented them with the ticket which won her millions of pounds.

She told the newspaper:-

"You can see from the ticket that someone has gone in and put down £2 for the entry. It wasn't part of a big batch, the way a syndicate entry would have been placed.

It's ludicrous to suggest my mum and I somehow colluded in this. I put my lottery ticket on fair and square and people are trying to spoil our lucky break."

The bottom line is that my mum would place the entire batch at the start of the month and they would run until the end of the month. That doesn't fit with my ticket at all."

Anne told the same newspaper that the office syndicate had been redundant since October 2008 when she was seconded to another office. She said:-

"I didn't put the numbers on for November because I didn't collect the money. There was no issue with that.

I would spend £40 or £50 in one go, not dribs and drabs of £2 lucky dips. I truly hope that when the syndicate members see Karan's ticket in the Record and read about how it was placed they will drop any suspicions they have."