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A National Lottery winner has bagged \u00a31million after double checking his ticket that had been left in the car for four months.<\/p>\n
Darren Burfitt, 44, only checked his lucky ticket after his four-year-old son asked for a packet of crisps from the car one Sunday morning.<\/p>\n
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The greenkeeper at Langland Bay Golf Club had kept several lottery tickets in the central console of his car but hadn’t got round to checking them.<\/p>\n
He decided to scan the tickets after spotting an appeal to find a missing lottery winner.<\/p>\n
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The 44-year-old said: “I had a few tickets in the central console of my car – it is where I always keep them for safety, and I just hadn’t got round to checking them.”<\/p>\n
The father-of-two had left the ticket in his grey Citroen DS4, which he’d left unlocked every day for the past four months.<\/p>\n
“My car is honestly a shed on wheels, held together with mud. It has almost no value, so I never bother to lock it,” he explained.<\/p>\n
“I dread to think what could have happened to that winning ticket.”<\/p>\n
<\/span>The winning ticket was purchased from a Morrisons Daily in Penllergaer before a family caravan holiday.<\/p>\n
Burfitt described how one ticket was particularly creased and wouldn’t scan on the National Lottery app.<\/p>\n
“It was so crumpled it wouldn’t scan, so I had to bring up the draw details and read the results,” he said.<\/p>\n
“I couldn’t quite believe it when I did… In fact, I still cannot believe it now.”<\/p>\n
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When he called his wife Gemma, a teaching assistant who was away overnight, his voice was shaking so much she feared something had happened to their children.<\/p>\n
“I said no – we have won \u00a31m pounds. But she just wouldn’t believe me,” Burfitt recalled.<\/p>\n
The couple, who also have a six-year-old daughter, are now planning their future with their unexpected windfall.<\/p>\n
They have set their sights on buying their first home together, which will provide security for their family.<\/p>\n
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