If you’d have asked David John Price what the best moment of his life was before this week he’d have been scratching his head. The 65-year-old former coal merchant has grafted all of his working years but admits he has “never been a lucky man”.
After losing his sister nine years ago, his son died last year while David was recovering from Covid-19 and sepsis which had consigned him to weeks in intensive care last spring. His health became so bad doctors told his family to say their goodbyes as he lay unconscious in bed.
“It’s been bad - really, really bad,” David told WalesOnline from his modest home in Rhymney with his beloved pooch Charles and niece Emma Taylor. On this quiet and unassuming street of ex-council houses just south of Merthyr Tydfil, which residents describe as “largely forgotten”, nine people have won a total of £2.8 million on the Postcode Lottery - and David has bagged himself £185,000.
