Bloke who bagged £10m on lottery and gave fortune to ex-wife 'skint 10 years later'

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John McGuiness had the world at his feet when he packed away £10million on the Public Lottery in 1997

- be that as it may, under 10 years after the fact he was formally announced 'skint'

John sacked the huge award In 1997

A chap who sacked £10million in an enormous Public Lottery win

has been left with nothing after a progression of terrible speculations and giving a roll of it to his ex.

John McGuinness won the tremendous award in 1997.

He was functioning as a medical clinic watchman, residing with his folks in a chamber house and was procuring just £150 every week at that point.

Yet, a horrendous interest into his cherished football club, Scottish Prevalence side Livingstone, his karma immediately ran out.

One of the main things John did was to put £4m into the club before it went into organization

- yet, it implied he was obligated for every one of the advances and obligation the club had when it did.

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He sprinkled out on an extravagant vehicle and siphoned cash into his cherished football club

He likewise sprinkled £140,000 on a Ferrari Modena Spyder vehicle,

£500,000 on a rich cushion in Majorca and spent an eye-watering £1.3m on a gigantic chateau in Borthwell, South Lanarkshire.

For those keeping count, that is the greater part of what he had sacked.

To finish it off, he gave around £3m to his nearby relatives and £750,000 to his ex.

The pair were hitched at that point and it has not been made public precisely when they got separated.

This, combined with a £2m credit for his football club, left him years after the fact with literally nothing.

By 2007, he was formally "skint", and a companion called him to tell him so.

He accused his stunning run of cash spending on previous colleague Dominic Keane who persuaded him to

put resources into Livingston, and even indicted him over it. John lost.

Talking about it in 2009, he said: "I know according to the law no one is at fault for me losing my cash… however I know who I fault.

"I gave my cash to Dominic Keane and presently it's an Il gone and I don't have anything - somebody ။ probably taken it.

He burned through £7,000 on a marked Ronaldo shirt from the legend's time at Barcelona

"On the off chance that I had never met him, I'd in any case be sitting with about £5million in the bank and I would have been very blissful partaking in a splendid life.

"I had the Ferraris, the fashioner closet and the extravagance occasions, I had all that I had at any point envisioned about and that's only the tip of the iceberg.

"Presently I'm stressed over how to pay for the shopping.

He figured out how to blow the part in under 10

Years
"The vehicles are completely gone, special times of year are recollections - everything vanished with that one call from my mate."

John has stayed under the radar since his emotional go wrong.

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