
A shop worker has been jailed for 30 months for trying to claim a winning ?1m lottery ticket belonging to a pensioner couple.
Farrakh Nizzar, 30, told Maureen Holt her EuroMillions ticket was a loser - and asked her if she wanted the ticket back.
Mrs Holt, 78, and her husband Fred, 80, told him to bin the seemingly worthless ticket.
In fact, when Nizzar scanned the ticket at his cousin's Best One shop in Oldham, Greater Manchester, where he worked, the terminal told him the holder should contact Camelot.
Nizzar, whose visa had expired and who is due to be deported to Pakistan, kept the ticket and later called the lottery company himself in an attempt to keep the prize.
But the firm became suspicious when he was unable to answer questions about the winning ticket.

So this illegal worker working for his cousin?s Best One Shop, who?s visa had expired and the UK border Agency had no clue if he had left the country but stayed back to claim a winning ?1m lottery ticket belonging to a pensioner couple (Amazing)
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