EuroMillions winner comes forward at 11th hour to claim £58million jackpot from March draw after buying ticket in South Ayrshire at start of lockdown
- The winner, who hit the jackpot on March 17, stands to pocket £57,879,670 prize
- Lottery chiefs have revealed they are currently processing a payout for reward
- Deadline for claiming prize had been set to pass deadline of midnight on Sunday
A EuroMillions winner has come forward at the 11th hour to claim a £58million jackpot from a March draw after buying a ticket in South Ayrshire at the start of lockdown.
The winner stands to pocket a massive £57,879,670 prize that had been set to pass a deadline of midnight on Sunday.
Lottery chiefs have revealed they are currently processing a payout for the prize and added no further details could be released.
The deadline has passed for the person who bought a winning lottery ticket in South Ayrshire to claim their £57million jackpot from the EuroMillions draw on March 17 (file photo)
The lucky winner will immediately rocket on to the list of the richest people in the country.
They will rank alongside stars such as Harry Potter actor Daniel Radcliffe, Manchester United’s Paul Pogba and One Direction’s Zayn Malik.
The successful numbers on the ticket bought for the March 17 draw are 5, 7, 8, 16, 20 with Lucky Stars 2 and 12.
A spokeswoman for Camelot, which has run The National Lottery since 1994, said: ‘We can confirm that we are currently finalising the validation of a claim made on this prize and are in the process of arranging for payment to be made to the ticket-holder.
‘Once the prize has been fully validated and paid, we’ll issue confirmation of that – but there will be no further updates before then.
‘Please note that we don’t comment on the details of individual prize claims and that, unless the winner of a major National Lottery prize opts to take publicity and signs an agreement to that effect, no further information can be released about their win.’
The ticket, worth £57,869,670, was bought in South Ayrshire. A claim was staked in April but Camelot has not revealed if it passed the process of validation (file photo)
A claim was staked for the prize in April, but it was not confirmed whether this passed the process of validation.
Players are given 180 days to make claims on prizes but if nobody hands over the lucky ticket then the cash will be handed to good causes.
In 2012, a Euromillions prize fund of £65million was distributed to good causes after the winning ticket, bought in Hertfordshire, went unclaimed.
The winners of Scotland’s largest lottery pot, Colin and Christine Weir from Ayrshire, won £161million on Euromillions in 2011.
Across all lottery games in 2018, a whopping £125.1million went unclaimed.