To ask if Million pound lottery winner who refuses to share money with partner should have shared?

[SweetBirdsong]

I am surprised this isn't on here actually. It's been on the news for 2 days, and has just been discussed on Loose Women.

From the article...

A couple are waging war over a £1 million lotto scratchcard they ‘purchased together’ weeks before breaking up.

Michael Cartlidge, 39, and former partner Charlotte Cox, 37, purchased the
Lottery card together at a shop in Spalding, Lincs. But when Charlotte walked out on Michael a few weeks later, she was deemed to be the sole winner of the jackpot by lottery chiefs.

Michael admits that Charlotte both paid for and scratched the ticket. But he also claims that he was the one who suggested she buy the ticket and attempted to transfer her cash to cover the purchase while they were in the shop.
He says the mum-of-one initially agreed to split the cash, but later welched on the deal after breaking up with him a few weeks later and claimed she was the sole winner of the jackpot.

He said ‘£1million has never brought such misery.’

So, was the woman (Charlotte) wrong to have kept all the money to herself? They were not married, they didn't own any property together or have joint finances, and they'd only been together 3 months. Lottery chiefs said she is the sole owner of the money and does not have to share it.

YABU - she was WRONG to keep the money and should have split it with him. They were 'a couple.' He didn't pay for the ticket, but they got it at the same time.

YANBU - she was RIGHT to keep it - as she paid for the ticket herself, and didn't need to share it. They'd only been together 3 months, they weren't married, and they didn't have a house together or joint finances.

https://metro.co.uk/2024/02/20/man-claims-ex-dumped-weeks-bought-winning-1-000-000-scratchcard-20311093/

Im just curious as to whether it would be the same situation if someone bought a lottery ticket alone, but it was funded from a joint account?! Who has a claim then? Just the winner who bought it, or both people on the joint account?

She shouldn't share and she was a fool for telling a bloke she barely knew.....he seems the type to hound her for life 😬

He suggested it, he didn’t buy it. If a random in the queue or a shop assistant suggested it they wouldn’t be entitled either. The lottery officials agree it’s hers. How is this even a discussion? Good for her, more money less shit boyfriend.

I’d give him £50 in £1 coins and say off you pop! Cheeky chancer

He's a chancer. It's her win and her money.

Me and my partner often transfer each other paltry sums because we're broke as fuck LOL!

Together a mere 3 months + he's on trial soon for beating up his ex? I bet he didn't treat her well so she chucked him. Talk about Karma with a big K. He must be feeling sick, he'll remember this for the rest of his life. I pity any woman who gets with him after all this, she'll be the outlet for his anger and anguish. Serves him right. Sometimes things do turn out how they're supposed to in life

3 months is hardly a partner!

It's a boyfriend. Kids shouldn't get into the frame of mind as to appropriate responsibility onto people who don't want/need/have/or deserve it.

Ha ha - nice try mate!

I sincerely doubt that his version of events is true. Also - three months is very far from a partner - it’s barely a boyfriend.

No way should this be shared.

“Suggested she buy the ticket” 😂

3 months? No shared finances or children i presume? Are they living together (as in both legally on tenancy)?

If they are legally together as in shared tenancy then my opinion is different to them just dating ...

'He said ‘£1million has never brought such misery.’'

Not for Charlotte, she won a million quid and got rid of violent cocklodger in one fell swoop. I bet she is fucking ecstatic.

Did you make this up? I can't see any info about this.

There are newspaper articles about it

"Misery" what nonsense. He is no worse off than he was before his partner won the money.

It's hers, he's a boyfriend not a partner m

This is completely off topic to this but I thought I’d share a story regarding greedy (ex) partners and money.

When I was with my partner at the time, we was at bingo and I was on the slot machines, I went on it once and won £70. He was like ‘any winnings we get, we’ll split 50/50 whatever our winnings’ so even though he had no job and was financially abusing me, I still said yes. Well when we went into bingo, he won £1k. I turned to him and said ‘remember when you said about going 50/50’. He went ghost white and started kicking off saying it was his money and that I was money grabbing. He only ended up giving me half the money because his sister forced him too - but I never heard the end of it.

Men like this see their money as their money and your money as both of yours.

He had been living at hers, even though only been together less than 3 months. Going out to shops for stuff but he didn't bring his wallet, and was unemployed. He also is awaiting trial for beating his ex girlfriend.
If that woman gives him a penny, then she's a fool.

Yes I often just make things up like that for fun

Under the circumstances of this scenario, the money is hers.

He was a boyfriend, not a partner. If he wanted a lottery ticket, he should have bought one himself.

This is her chance of a totally different life. She shouldn't give half of it away.

3 months of dating is not a partner.
this is a perfect example of why that term should have real meaning.

they had no real ties and no obligations to one another. It was someone she happened to be dating. She owes him nothing.

Definitely her money.

What I find very distasteful is the Metro's use of casual racism in their reporting. "Welched" as a verb should be banished from the lexicon.

No she shouldn't have to share - she paid and they'd been together only 3 months!

3 months in.
She paid from her account not a shared one.
Bet he didn't have form.of paying for half the shopping just this once cos he thought he was quids in