Barry
Loughrey, who lives in the Highlands,
purchased two lotto lucky dip tickets from the Tain branch of Tesco while doing
some shopping with his fiancée, Ildi Kiss, 28.
The pair
checked their numbers the following morning, using Loughrey's phone. Due to a
poor reception they initially thought they had won £585 and planned to use the
money to pay for a photographer for their wedding this summer. A closer
inspection revealed a comma at the end of the numbers. Unable to discover what
followed the comma, the couple rushed over to Loughrey's parents' house to use
their computer. When they saw the missing numbers and
discovered they had won £585,956, the lucky lovers couldn't believe it.
The win was
especially lucky because the pair had originally forgotten to buy any tickets,
but returned to the store especially to do so.
"We
kept double-checking the numbers as no-one could quite take it in," said
Loughrey. "I'm so glad we went back in to the shop when we forgot to buy
our ticket."
Loughrey
and his fiancée had already organized most of their wedding and do not plan on
going overboard now they have some extra money in the bank, but they share a
car at the moment and intend to buy an extra vehicle to make their lives
easier. They also plan to use some of their lotto windfall to pay for a few
trips abroad.
