A baffled veteran is bringing legal action against Camelot after it refused to pay out on his winning £6.5million lottery ticket - saying it has already been claimed.
Peter Rhodes, 60, says he doesn't play the lottery very often and only buys tickets when the jackpot is big. Mr Rhodes says alarm bells started ringing when he took his ticket to a shop in London and he alleges his National Lottery jackpot was stolen by a shop employee when he tried to cash in the ticket.
The pensioner claims a woman in Camelot's operations team confirmed it was worth £6.5million but hours later he says he was contacted by the lottery firm's fraud team saying they will not pay out the winnings - because it had already been claimed.
