Factory worker said ‘stars aligned’ for him to win £1m on lottery scratch card
Luke Harris from Kent has become a millionaire after going to his local shops and buying a scratch card ‘on a whim’.
A factory worker has said the “stars aligned” after he won £1 million on a scratch card following a quick trip to the shops for bread.
Luke Harris, 34, from Canterbury in Kent, headed to his local Co-op store in Island Road to buy a loaf of bread, but came home with a £1 million-winning Merry Millionaire National Lottery scratch card.
He said: “I keep thinking someone is going to take it all away from me and tell me it’s a prank.”
Mr Harris, who lives with his fiancee, Alison Coke, 34, and their four children, said: “We’ve already purchased a new family car, a Nissan X-Trail. We are looking at a wedding venue – we got engaged last September but had to put it on the back burner as the house was the priority.”
Mr Harris said the winning number he scratched off was 31, which is the couple’s lucky number after they had their first date on August 31 2020.
“We only moved into our new house three months ago – that was by fluke. We hadn’t considered the area, but the estate agent sent it through to us by mistake and we decided to look at it – we ended up loving it. We put an offer in, and it was ours,” he said.
