Lotto winner using £13.5m fortune to chauffeur 'the needy' with luxury car fleet

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A £13.5 million Lotto winner turned unlikely chauffeur has revealed how he is using his fortune to change people’s lives.Kind Peter Congdon, 76, found his calling after coming to the rescue of a stranded bride during the pandemic and stepped in to help the damsel in distress when she could not get a wedding car in time.The big-hearted grandad-of-ten, from Truro in Cornwall, now has his own fleet of cars for the needy, including anyone from teens going to prom or people facing the end of their lives in a hospice.Peter has even bought a clutch of homes that he rents out at low prices to young people in order to help them get onto the property ladder.Speaking about the brush with fate with the bride which led him to his new life Peter said: “It was such a memorable moment, when the bride walked out, she was expecting to climb into her dad’s car and instead, she looked up and saw my Bentley parked across the street, and realised she did have a beautiful wedding car.“She wept so much that she had to go back in to get her make up fixed.”Waiving what would be a £500 fee for the luxury wedding car, Peter said: “Since then, when I hear of a bride who can’t afford a car, I’ll step in to volunteer.

I think I’ve taken more than 25 Cornish brides to say ‘I do’.“I always turn up in my best suit to help make it the happiest day of her life, and the only payment I need is to see the joy on their faces.”Like most big winners, the former bus driver and retired funeral director, did what many others have done since the first Lotto draw 30 years ago, and he treated himself to a selection of luxury items, including a BMW i8 and a Bentley Continental.However, when news of Peter’s big hearted gesture to the stranded bride spread he soon had a