Lottery winner hopes to realise boyhood dream

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Coventry electrician unable to work for a year through ill health wins £1m on Euromillions lottery

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An electrician who has been unable to work for a year through ill health has won £1m on the Euromillions lottery. "For as long as I can remember I have wanted to buy old properties, do them up and build my own portfolio," he said.He studied Design Technology, worked on building sites and trained to become an electrician with this ambition in mind.

 

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Bless him. Very happy for him

Excellent. Well done.

Good for you Get in Enjoy

Well done. Use your winnings wisely.

Well deserve it congrats 👏 👏👏

Absolute best a luck to him! Well done!

Well done but he's nuts for going public.

Nice to hear good news. Enjoy!

Good for you:)

Good for him. Deserves every penny.

Bet he's chuffed

That's good but won't get you far

Well done lad ..

one day that will be me! :)

Good on him... Enjoy it.

will he be '''''persuaded''''' to DONATE £ 8 0 0, 0 0 0 of T H A T, to the N. H. S. ? o r maybe £ 9 0 0, 0 0 0 ?

Just love stories like this!

Congrats!🎉

Great news!

Love a good news story need more of these other than coronavirus and rioting in America

I was about to be enchanted by this tale of the realisation of childhood dreams (a chocolate factory?, a ride in a fire engine?, a model 🚂 ?), until, upon reading, the dream is the acquisition of wealth attained from a ‘portfolio’ of refurbished properties. 🧨🧚⚰️

Вы верите в это?

So glad it went to someone who really needs it.

Great news.

👏🏻👏🏻

Good for him.

Good for him! I hope he finds a good financial advisor to make that last so he won’t have to work ever again.

I’m happy when it goes to good people ,enjoy fella 👍

Congrats!

Dont tell Boris. He will steal it

That's one hell of a shock

One of the very few ways a working class person can enter the elite class.

🥰

Good for you! Congratulations 🥳

Well done Simon, enjoy 👍

That should cover the wages

God bless him...

Get pissed first

Lucky fucker .nice 1 .save half a mill for the vaccine

Brilliant! 🍾🍾

Looks like he has no legs but an apparent ability to shake a bottle...

Bet he got a shock

Be paying that employment support allowance back then?

Bless

Class

Looks like he’s cured.....😉

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