A factory
worker from Smethwick has won £250,000 on the UK National Lottery scratch card
he bought instead of accompanying his wife on their weekly grocery shop.
Paul
Bagnell's wife Deborah knows her man has an aversion to shopping, and is used
to him disappearing and leaving her to push the trolley alone. So when she
found herself doing a solo shop on a recent visit to their local Aldi it was
nothing new, but she never expected he would return a quarter of a million
pounds richer.
When Paul
dodged the shop to go and buy a scratch card he was in two minds about the best
place to go, but finally settled on the DSM newsagent in Bearwood.
"I
thought I'll go in the Co-op and then I thought 'no, I’ll go in DSM',"
Paul said, and admits to finally deciding on the newsagents because he had an
instinct it was the right thing to do.
When he'd
finished scratching the Rainbow Scratchcard the stunned shop dodger was amazed
at what he'd uncovered and rushed back to show his wife.
Pulling her
to quiet corner of the store, he held out the card and gradually revealed the
amount of they had won.
"I saw
a 2," Deborah recalled. "I said '200?' He revealed the lot and I just
went into shock."
The couple
now plan to holiday in Mauritius, and Paul says he may buy a new car, but he
still intends to keep his job at the Haws Elliot watering can factory. "I
love the place where I am," said Paul.
