National Lottery fury as bloke claims 'shop worker stole winning £6.5m ticket'
dailystar.co.ukThe Mirror he doesn't play the lottery very often and only buys tickets when the winnings are bigMr Rhodes says alarm bells started ringing when he took his ticket to a shop in London and he alleges his National Lottery jackpot was stolen by a shop employee when he tried to cash in the ticket.The pensioner claims a woman in Camelot's operations team confirmed it was worth £6.5million but hours later he says he was contacted by the lottery firm's fraud team saying they will not pay out the winnings - because it had already been claimed.Mr Rhodes, from London, said: "It's a life-changing amount of money.
They haven't stolen from me. They stole my kid's futures. That money was going to be for them."Mr Rhodes says he took his ticket to a shop in London in October 2019 and when the shopkeeper put it through the machine it allegedly made a noise to indicate he had won something.He said things then became very strange and claims the shopkeeper refused to give his ticket over.Mr Rhodes said: "When I first went in and handed it over the shopkeeper put it in the machine and it made a noise, meaning it was a winning ticket of some sort."I didn't know how much was on it and he then refused to give me my ticket.
I asked for my ticket back and he took three steps to the right and put it under the counter."I leaned over and saw he had about 80 tickets under the counter.
He picked one up and paid me something like £11.40."He tried to say it was my ticket and it wasn't. I know it wasn't because I folded mine twice and put it in my wallet and this one was flat."In search of his winnings, Mr Rhodes contacted the police.
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