When Colin Weir and his wife Christine scooped a £161million EuroMillions jackpot back in 2011, it was a jackpot that was only surpassed eight years later when an unnamed player in Italy bagged £193million. However, Colin soon made a dint in that fortune spending a whopping £40m at a rate of £100k a week before his death.
Documents revealed that one half of Europe's second biggest EuroMillions winning couple burned through a portion of the massive lottery prize win at a rapid rate. By the time he died in 2019, aged 71, his share of the cash had shrunk by £40million.
One financial expert was reported by Daily Record as saying: “Spending £40million in eight years takes a bit of doing.” But the big cash winner didn't keep his windfall to himself. The former cameraman at STV may have splashed out on cars and luxuries - his will shows that he owned furniture, jewellery and artworks valued at about £212,000 - but he also pumped money into his favourite football club, Partick Thistle, and shared out his good fortune.
