A major £1.4m drugs operation was cracked after a dealer's mum was caught 'red handed' sitting on a bed next to a pile of cash.
17.03.2024 - 22:35 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A carer who looks after disabled children is set to receive £10,000 a month for the next 30 YEARS after scooping an incredible lottery win.
Joanne Jobson discovered she had landed the National Lottery’s Set For Life jackpot back in February after waking from a night shift to a message from the company.
The 51-year-old, who has been living with her mum in order to save for a house deposit, initially did not believe she had won.
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“I logged onto my account and couldn’t believe what I was reading, I had to re-read the message several times as I thought it was telling me what ‘I could win’, not what I had ‘actually won’,” Joanne, from Hartlepool, County Durham, said.
“I jumped out of bed and went to tell my mum. I remember just saying to mum ‘I think I might have won a lot of money!’ and showing her my phone… mum was convinced it was a scam.
“Never in my wildest dreams did I think when I played that I’d actually win – I didn’t think things like this happened to real people like me, but I’m proof they really do!”
Joanne searched the winning Set For Life numbers on Google for that date, February 22, to find they matched her own – which were 16, 17, 19, 23, 38 and Life Ball 5.
After “checking and checking again”, she called the National Lottery claim line who confirmed she had won.
But as it was late on a Friday, she was told she would receive a call from their winner services team the following Monday - so she got ready for another night shift.
“I needed to get to work and didn’t want to let my colleagues down so as if on autopilot, I got ready for my shift,” she said.
“Once I got to work I couldn’t help but tell the team what had happened … it
A major £1.4m drugs operation was cracked after a dealer's mum was caught 'red handed' sitting on a bed next to a pile of cash.
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