A National Lottery punter who claims a shopkeeper switched his £6.5million jackpot-winning ticket is planning legal action against operators Camelot. Peter Rhodes, 60, claims the shop assistant swapped his ticket for one under the counter and paid out a small sum.
When a member of Camelot's operations team traced the ticket through his bank statement, she said it was worth £6.5 million, Peter told The Mirror. But hours later the lottery firm's fraud team contacted him to say they would not pay out on it - because the prize had already been claimed.
Peter, a former serviceman from London, has now instructed solicitors to pursue his claim over the ticket, which he tried to cash in at a shop in the capital in October 2019. He said: "It's a life-changing amount of money.
