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Student misses out on £182m EuroMillions win after bank account only had £2.50 in it

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AuthorRyan Merryfield
Published date19 June 2022
Publication titleEdinburghLive (Scotland)
The student, Rachel Kennedy, called her mum, along with her boyfriend Liam McCrohan, 21, to break the amazing news before discovering the devastating error

The 19-year-old, from Hertfordshire, only had £2.50 in her bank account meaning the ticket was not automatically bought prior to the draw as it usually was.

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A glitch saw her receive an email from Camelot the following day declaring her the winner, the Mirror reports.

The numbers she'd used with Liam for five weeks in a row - 6, 12, 22, 29, 33, 6 and 11 - had been drawn on February 26, 2021, but there was nothing that could be done.

The ticket hadn't gone through.

After Rachel went public with the devastatingly unlucky close call, Camelot wished her "the best of luck in future draws".

The teenager told The Sun: "I called the number thinking that I had won £182million and they said 'yeah you've got the right numbers but you didn't have the funds in your account for the payment of the ticket so it didn't actually go through'.

"I was on top of the world when I thought I had won, but when I found out I hadn't, Liam was actually more upset than me."

Having checked her account, she was initially greeted with a message saying her numbers were a "winning match".

However, her heart sank when she realised...

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