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Edinburgh Live
Jonathon Crump & Paul Drury

Scottish EuroMillions winner burnt through £40m jackpot spending £100,000 a week

The biggest ever Scottish lottery winner went on a huge spending spree burning through his enormous fortune at the rate of nearly £100,000-a-week.

Colin and Christine Weir scooped a life-changing EuroMillions jackpot of £161million in 2011. The pair became Europe's second-biggest winners and retained the title until 2019 when an unnamed individual in Italy won a jackpot worth £193 million.

But the Record reports when Colin Weir died in December 2019, his prize money had shrunk by around £40million after he splurged cash on a life of luxury - including sports cars, property and even the football club he supported.

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