ohn and Alison Doherty won the £14.6m top prize in
a lottery draw in Scotland on July 2. Alison had let a
customer go ahead of her in the queue at their local
convenience store and then decided to follow suit when
the other customer bought a lucky dip ticket. After she
realized she was the winner, she called her husband
home immediately.
However, instead of heading straight to claim their
winnings, they hid their winning slip under a lantern + a
photocopy at home because they had a holiday booked for
themselves and their two kids in Florida. It was when
they returned two weeks after that they got the ticket
validated.
Although the couple are now over £14m richer, John
Doherty has returned back to work for his JDPS
plumbing and heating engineer firm which he set up in
1984. According to him, he doesn't want to let down
his loyal customers and would be bored sitting at home.
Stepping out in his black overalls and jumping into his
black Mercedes van to service a boiler he'd fitted, he
said,
"I really enjoy my work - I've been doing it a
long time. I want to stay grounded. I've got a
lot of loyal customers and I don't want to let
them down. My customers are older people and
they've treated me just the same after the win
which is what I want. I'm doing stuff that was
arranged before all this happened. I can't
imagine sitting in the family home all day.
You'd be bored not working. So I'm just
carrying on. I'm just back off two holidays so I
definitely don't think I should be sitting on a
beach. I will treat myself - but once it's all
settled down a bit"
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