To think the single mum should get 33million

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If she can remember where and when she bought the ticket and the man serving her can remember her.

These tickets should be in some kind of readable state after a wash.

It's really common to doctor tickets after jackpots go unclaimed. I could buy a ticket with all the winning numbers now and then just destroy the barcode and date (fold it lots, rip it, age the paper, wash it).

Usual lottery rules are that with no readable ticket, no money can be claimed but this wasn't allowed to roll over again which complicates things.

There is convenient damage to the ticket, although it's possible that is just a coincidence.

Giggling at the posters who wouldn't be looking for a partner if they were single again !

I am single. I've been single for seven years. I'm not 'looking' for a partner, I have no need for a partner in my life. I have a four year old son by donor conception and I'm very happy as a sole parent to him. I'm not sure why I'm supposed to be looking for a partner?

Because all women are bereft and hopeless without a man, Midnite. Obvious when you think about it

If I had the winning ticket, but it had gone through the wash, I'd have contacted camelot ASAP. Not waited for them to try to find me.

Maybe she did the random number selecting thingummajig?

If I was Camelot, I would be looking at how many people have bought tickets with the winning numbers after it was announced there was a missing ticket.
I suspect there might be a rise.

IMO, the OP used the term hoping for an emotive response thinking we would visualise someone with dependent children (including up to mid-teens) who was struggling to combine work, childcare/school support and running a house. As long as you are over 16 (which is, I think, the minimum legal age for buying a ticket) and can pay the £2, nothing else matters, certainly not your relationship status or the number of children you have?
Obviously you can be in your 50s and single and obviously the age at which people have children is increasing but I doubt many people in their 50s would describe themselves as a single parent. The majority will have children able to support themselves or who should be able to and may well have a "significant other" in their lives who they rely on for support as much as if not more than their mother.

I'm a single/lone parent (I don't care what you call me, it means the same thing) and I'm definitely not looking for another partner.

Oh shit. I forgot the part where I'm supposed to be helpless and unable to care for myself. I'd better give my house to the nearest person with a penis and go and live on the streets.

I think this thread was well intentioned by the OP and has been taken out of context by some posters!

OP I hope the lady gets the money as well; it'd be devastating to her if it was refused; can you imagine that?! I imagine Camelot must have safeguards for this type of thing though, and surely CCTV in the newsagents?

Oh dear sorry to have caused offence I just giggled with pleasure at other people who would happily be single

I've been happily single six years but all bar one of my friends are married so I sometimes feel the odd one out blah blah and I doubt one of them would say they would want to be single if their relationship ended. Hope that makes sense now

I think the poster who said she was giggling was actually on side with those of us who really wouldn't be interested in dating again.

Read her post again, she's single and happy that way.

The religious nuts concerned colleagues tell me it's because a woman is meant to be with a man cos er, it's in the Bible innit (along with some jolly stuff about shellfish, slavery, and putting people to death). I suspect they're just shit scared at the idea of being redundant.

Back to the subject of the thread, am I the only one imagining people making a living out of carefully laundering stacks of lottery tickets to remove the inconvenient details while keeping the numbers intact? It must be quite an art.

crossed posts! Sorry, I was reading the thread and it took me a while.

I think this thread was well intentioned by the OP

It was a "teaser" headline.

I am sure there are strict procedures. I also suspect there are checks to disprove anyone as well who claims they brought a ticket.

Such as FB updates. You claim to have got the ticket at 6pm on Thursday at this newsagents but FB checked you in at the cinema at that time.

milk I know it was well intentioned now, but at first I thought this was going to be a thread about how she's a single mum and therefore has it worse than everyone else including families where parents are still together, so of course she needs the money more than anyone else would because she's a single mum.

Ah you see thatsnotmyhoyse she wasn't at all she was just using the wording the media has used she's admited herself being a single mum has nothing to do with weather she should or shouldn't get the money.

And also no I wouldn't visualise a person struggling to combine work child care running the house (in your opinion from what you've said on a low wage with no matinece from the father) I'd visualise my best friend who lives in a nice area of the City she lives in who whilst she was married was a stay at home mum, has now gone back to work but because her children are older and when child care is needed the father who she gets a very substantial contribution from does it. Doesn't make her any less of a single mother. Or I'd picture my mother who was a single parent to me and my brother since I was 3, (ok she did remarry when I was 12) but we stayed with friends after school and she didn't striggle with balancing work and us!

Again with people having children in their 40s she could have Young children no where near mid teens!

It's only your own stereotypical view none of us have visualised what you've descrived at all.

As for the giggling at those who would remain single, you know what it is possible to exorcist without a man, I have absolutely no desire to date.

I don't play the Lottery normally, but did buy a ticket for this one. I don't carry a bag do put it in my jeans pocket. I didn't actually remember to check the number until a few days later so all of that bit could be true.
However I don't think putting it through the wash would destroy only some bits and not others,conveniently leaving the numbers and not the evidence required

I'm suspicious and suspect she's scamming.

Shame.

Oh dear sorry to have caused offence I just giggled with pleasure at other people who would happily be single

No I'm sorry I read it wrong.

I've just heard it before "you never know what you'd do until it happens". Actually I do know :) Sorry, I thought that's why you were giggling.

aye I don't know, I hope not! It's pretty difficult to scam a ticket right?

I think it sounds like a scam.

They will be able to forensically test that ticket as well as check to see if the location of sale matches with her story.

I think if you were genuine you'd contact Camelot first. Not the press.

Can't they check CCTV?

Won't it be on record exactly where and when the winning ticket was bought? If they check CCTV and see her purchasing the winning ticket in the right place at the right time surely that is enough to prove she is the winner?

I'm a parent, it doesn't need a prefix added to it, you wouldn't say 'married parent' would you?
I bought a ticket in Worcester, it was in my jeans and went through the wash. I didn't watch the draw..

I think she realised the shop she bought her non-winning ticket from was, or could be, the winning shop. She went and bought a ticket for the next draw, with those winning numbers,then doctored the ticket, knowing she would be on the CCTV for the big rollover.
But if she is genuine I really hope she gets it or she will be devastated till the end of days.

Ah I see, it never occurred to me people would by the ticket after!

Well I hope she is genuine and they do pay out, would be nice to see it go to someone to enjoy instead of all these endless roll overs.