furloughed then unemployed during the pandemic has scooped almost £250,000 on the EuroMillions. Samantha Morton was furloughed from her job as a warehouse manager in March this year when Covid-19 put the UK on lockdown.
To rub salt in the wound, the 36-year-old was made redundant over the summer. After moving to Essex to be with her 26-year-old boyfriend, Barry Lingard, Samantha recently found new employment as a warehouse operator.Fortunes changed even more when she realised she'd won £242,775.50 on November 27.
Her quarter of a million pound win was through an online Lucky Dip, the Mirror reports. The divorcee met her boyfriend online last year, and during the pandemic she moved in with him and his family after "weekends of making the.
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