Brothers smash father's new cars for not SHARING his million-dollar lottery and leaving them 200 cigarettes
HUCKNALL, NOTTINGHAMSHIRE: Two brothers smashed their father's new cars with claw hammers after he refused to share his $3.6M in lottery winnings. Alex Robertson Jr, 45, said he and his brother William smashed the windows of the two Mitsubishis after their father Alex Sr told him he would see 'f**k all' from his winnings and gave him 200 cigarettes. He said the family were ‘ripped apart’ after Alex Sr was part of a 12-strong syndicate of Stagecoach workers from Corby, Northamptonshire who shared $45M winnings in 2012.
"We ended up taking hammers to his two new 4x4 Shoguns", Alex Jr told The Sun. "We walked up his driveway at 11 pm and put two claw hammers through the windows of the car. We then reported ourselves to the police." He also told the news outlet, "This lottery win was the worst thing that ever happened to us, it ripped our families apart." Alex Sr later accused William of harassment, saying he had sent him threatening text messages that had left him petrified.
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William was due to stand trial at Northampton Magistrates’ Court, but the case was dropped in 2013 after Alex Sr decided against flying back from Benidorm, Spain, where he lived with his partner Morag, to give evidence in the trial.
The rules of the British National Lottery are clear, only the person named on the winning ticket is entitled to the cash. However, the Robertsons are far from the only family that has been torn apart after winning millions in the lottery. According to Metro, ealier, Kirk Stevens, 39, said he had been dumped by his partner and cut off from a jackpot of £10,000 (~$11,736) a month for the next 30 years. Stevens and Laura Hoyle, 40, from Nottingham, won the jackpot in the National Lottery's Set For Life draw in March 2021. Stevens had been letting Hoyle live with him in his £240,000 (~$281,672) three-bedroom house for free as he 'didn't expect her to pay rent' with the agreement that she would be the one to pay $30-a-week for lottery tickets.
The deal paid off for the couple, but Stevens claimed Hoyle has now broken up with him, snubbed him from the winnings and "even wants our two dogs". The couple had said they planned to set up a ghost hunting business and were photographed holding their cheque, written out to both of them.
Stevens argued he should be given a share of the winnings after the split, but although the novelty cheque handed to the couple had both of their names on it, the ticket was bought with Hoyle's account. A year-and-a-half later, Hoyle dumped Stevens, got a new house, and he says she took the jackpot, The Sun reported.
