Scottish EuroMillions winner blew £40m of jackpot before his death at rate of £100k-a-week

AuthorPaul Drury
Published date23 June 2022
Publication titleEdinburghLive (Scotland)
Their whopping win remains one of the largest ever - only surpassed in 2019 when an unnamed player in Italy landed a staggering £193million. But by the time he died in 2019 at the age 71, Colin's share of the windfall had shrunk by £40million, Daily Record reports

The rate of his spending has surprised many, with one financial expert saying: "Spending £40million in eight years takes a bit of doing." Colin splashed out on cars and pumped money into his favourite football club, Partick Thistle.

Kind-hearted Colin also shared his fortune with friends and charitable trusts. He died suddenly and passed on money to his two children with Christine – Carly and Jamie. Colin, from Ayrshire, threw his friends and family a no-expense-spared farewell party weeks after he died and laid on a luxury £1million event at the Trump Turnberry.

Guests dined on lobster, drank £340-a-bottle champagne and £40-a-plate truffle soup. Colin's will shows that when he died suddenly from sepsis and an "acute kidney injury", he owned furniture, jewellery and artworks valued at about £212,000.

His garage housed four luxury cars – a vintage Bentley Arnage, worth £10,000, a £28,250 three-year-old Jaguar F-Pace SUV, a £24,000 four-year-old Mercedes Benz E Class Estate and a 2019 Mercedes Benz V Class people carrier, valued at about £35,000.

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He bought a 55 percent stake in Partick Thistle a month before he died so he could donate the club to the...

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