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| UK National Lottery |
Susanne Hinte, who moved to the UK from her native Germany at the age of 19, now 48 years old and a grandmother may face fraud charges.
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| David and Carol Martin |
The first ticket holders David and Carol Martin came forward after 24 hours to claim their half of the winnings.
12 Days later local media were urging the public to check
their lottery numbers so as to locate the second winning ticket.
Susanne along
with a few hundred others had claimed
to be the second winning lottery ticket
holder after Camelot had announced that the winning ticket was purchased in the
Worcester area.
With the claimants’ all saying that their tickets were lost,
stolen or damaged in some way or another, these claims had to be sent to
Camelot for official verification, a process by which claimants must wait 180
days before the validity of their claim on the ticket is announced.
As a part of the procedure Susanne sent her ticket to Camelot, the problem with her ticket was that it
had gone through the wash, in the pocket of her jeans, resulting in the
remnants of this ticket showing the winning
numbers but not the essential barcode and date of the draw.
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| Alleged winning ticket |
Her “winning” lottery ticket was purchased at Ambleside News her local store in the
city. Shopkeeper Hansa Patel, whose husband Natu initially believed he had sold
the winning ticket to Susanne, and had offered to send the CCTV footage to
Camelot for their publicity. However as they did not get back to him he
realised that the ticket may not have been verified as the second winning
ticket.
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| Hansa Patel - Ambleside News |
Subsequently a verified winning lottery ticket has been brought to light, the winner(s) of
which would like to remain anonymous.
Could this be Camelot claiming a winner in order to end the drama or is there actually a genuine winner?
Could this be Camelot claiming a winner in order to end the drama or is there actually a genuine winner?
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| Susanne Hinte - Alleged Fraudster or Unlucky Winner? |
Could this be a simple mistake or is there more to it?
Susanne is currently awaiting
trial on two charges of theft
regarding and incident of a stolen handbag during a “distraction” crime in
Birmingham some time back.
Lottery bosses warned that they would take action against
people who try to claim jackpots
fraudulently as fake claimants can be charged with the criminal offence of fraud by false representation, an offence with
a maximum ten-year jail sentence.
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