Winning ticket in CI lottery bought at Co-op L’Aumone
IF YOU bought a Christmas lottery ticket from the Co-Operative En Route store at L’Aumone in October and have not yet checked your numbers, you might be sitting on almost £1m.
It has been revealed that the winning ticket in this year’s draw, which scooped £977,184, was highly likely to have been sold at the Castel convenience store and was among the first tickets to have been sold.
And, according to the lottery agent who supplied it, the winner is an individual and not a syndicate.
At the time of going to press, the prize had not been claimed.
While the top prize-winning ticket was sold locally, the winner of the £50,000 second prize bought their ticket in Jersey, according to Jon Taylor of the States’ Trading Supervisory Board.
Guernsey also saw the sale of two of the third-prize tickets, each worth £10,000.
As of yesterday afternoon nobody had come forward to claim the top prize and Mr Taylor said that none of the three £50,000 prizes available from the scratchcard part of the tickets had been claimed either – one of these was put up for sale in Guernsey, one in Jersey and the other could have been sold in either bailiwick.
Any prizes that are not claimed within a year are put into a forfeited prize fund and distributed among charities. There was £27,000 in unclaimed prizes from the 2017 lottery which will go to the Association of Guernsey Charities.
A total of 1,056,150 tickets were sold, compared with 1,340,000 last year. Of the sales, 395,000 were in Guernsey and 661,150 in Jersey.
There were more minor prizes this year due to public demand, and Mr Taylor said that was why, with the increase in ticket price to £3, although the amount of revenue was up by 10%, the top prize did not rise as high as in previous years.
If there had not been an increase in the minor prizes, the top prize this year would have been 5% higher than last year’s, he added, or just over £1.058m.
