Chucked in the BIN, forgotten in glovebox & gone in a puff of smoke – all the lottery winners who LOST their tickets WINNING the lottery only to then realise you lost your ticket might be one of the worst feelings on Earth.
Losing out on the multi-million pound prize, we may never know how they lost their ticket or if they had perhaps not even realised they won the jackpot - the lottery gave their winnings to charity instead.
Martyn Tott from Watford, Hertfordshire, missed out on a £3m lottery jackpot after he lost his ticket.
Senior winners' advisor at The National Lottery Andy Carter said: "Unfortunately, I can confirm that the ticket-holder did not come forward within the deadline to claim their prize and has now sadly missed out on this substantial amount of money.
After the winner of an £83.4m EuroMillions jackpot took nearly two weeks to claim their prize, we reveal the worst cases of people losing their golden tickets.
