Lottery win? Eye don’t believe it!
SHORT-sighted Emyr Jones didn’t trust his eyes when his lottery scratchcard came up as a £250,000 winner – so he drove five miles to get his wife to check it.
Odd-job man Emyr, 53, was filling up his van at a garage when he bought the ticket. “It looked like a winner,” he said. “But I didn’t have my glasses on and I decided not to walk back into the garage to claim my winnings.” Instead he drove to the restaurant where Eirian, 47, works and the pair ended up jumping for joy when she confirmed they had hit the jackpot.
Emyr, of Llanwrst, North Wales, has already spent some of his prize on more scratchcards winning £34 and £6. But the father-of-three wants to have a holiday and help his family. He said: “We’ll be spreading a little happiness on our family and grandchildren.”