A 30-year lottery winner who received £10,000 a month claims his girlfriend deserted him and cut him off from the winnings.
In the Set For Life draw sponsored by the National Lottery, Nottingham residents Kirk Stevens, 39, and Laura Hoyle, 40, shared the prize of £3.6 million over 30 years.
The two agreed Miss Hoyle would invest £25 each week in the lottery as Mr. Stevens had been allowing her to live with him for free since he “didn’t expect her to pay rent.”
The pair profited from the agreement, but Mr. Stevens said Miss Hoyle has now dumped him, refused to give him any of the money, and “even wants our two dogs.”
The pair was pictured with their check, which was made out to both of them and said that they intended to start a ghost-hunting company.
According to The Sun, Miss Hoyle abandoned Mr. Stevens a year and a half later, moved into a new home, and he claims she won the lottery.
Engineer Mr. Stevens said that his ex had claimed that if they won, they would “enjoy the life of Riley,” but that “now she’s gone.”
She pulled the plug and took everything, he continued. In fact, she wants our two dogs.
Even in syndicates, Camelot has said that all Lotto winnings are given to one person, and they confirmed to the Sun that the winning account belonged to her.
When the Sun reached her yesterday night, she declined to comment.
Miss Hoyle said earlier this year that she and Mr. Stevens intended to visit Disneyland Paris over the summer, in addition to “plenty of other interesting destinations,” but Mr. Stevens claims she has since broken up with him.
In a video taken the day the pair won the lottery on March 1, 2021, Laura was heard announcing that she was “going to be ill.”
Mr. Stevens said that in 2018, after getting to know Miss Hoyle via a friend, she moved into his three-bedroom house in Hucknall, Nottinghamshire.
In reference to giving Miss Hoyle rent-free occupancy of his $240,000 property, he said that she had inquired about the amount of the rent but that “as far as I was concerned she was my girlfriend.”
I didn’t expect her to pay rent, and I didn’t ask her for a thing, he continued.
The engineer continued by claiming that the pair had instead decided Miss Hoyle would purchase the lottery tickets.
The agreement, he said, was never more official than that, but because “we were a couple, living together in my house,” he didn’t see the need for anything else.
Miss Hoyle moved in with Mr. Stevens after selling her Wolverhampton house after losing her employment at a logistics company prior to the arrangement.