Lady who said she won the lottery

A spokeswoman for the California Lottery, Cathy Johnston, told the newspaper that the store footage would not be enough to substantiate the woman's claim, and that " compelling substantial proof you were in possession of the ticket " was required. However, a copy of the video has been shared with the lottery organisers and the claim is being investigated further, Ms Johnston confirmed.

If there is no recognised winner of the jackpot, cash would be distributed among California's public schools , the organisers said in a statement. The winning numbers for November's unclaimed draw were 23, 36, 12, 31, 13, with a so-called mega number of It is extremely rare for winning ticket-holders in the California Lottery not to come forward, the Los Angeles Times reported, citing the competition's organisers. It is hardly the first time people have claimed to have bought winning tickets that they were later unable to produce.

Back in BBC Newsbeat tested a ticket in the washing machine after a UK woman said she had left her winning numbers in a pair of dirty jeans. Keep the paper folded in your hand without looking at it until everyone has had a turn.

Everything clear? The people had done it so many times that they only half listened to the directions; most of them were quiet, wetting their lips, not looking around.

Then Mr. Summers said, and Mr. Adams reached into the black box and took out a folded paper. He held it firmly by one corner as he turned and went hastily back to his place in the crowd, where he stood a little apart from his family, not looking down at his hand.

Delacroix said to Mrs. Graves in the back row. Delacroix said. She held her breath while her husband went forward. Summers said, and Mrs. Graves said. She watched while Mr. Graves came around from the side of the box, greeted Mr.

Summers gravely, and selected a slip of paper from the box. By now, all through the crowd there were men holding the small folded papers in their large hands, turning them over and over nervously. Dunbar and her two sons stood together, Mrs. Dunbar holding the slip of paper. Old Man Warner snorted. Summers called his own name and then stepped forward precisely and selected a slip from the box.

After that, there was a long pause, a breathless pause, until Mr. People began to look around to see the Hutchinsons. Bill Hutchinson was standing quiet, staring down at the paper in his hand. Suddenly, Tessie Hutchinson shouted to Mr. I saw you. Delacroix called, and Mrs. You got any other households in the Hutchinsons? Hutchinson yelled. Summers said gently. And Tessie and me. Graves nodded and held up the slips of paper.

Summers directed. Hutchinson said, as quietly as she could. Graves had selected the five slips and put them in the box, and he dropped all the papers but those onto the ground, where the breeze caught them and lifted them off. Summers asked, and Bill Hutchinson, with one quick glance around at his wife and children, nodded. Harry, you help little Dave.

Graves took the hand of the little boy, who came willingly with him up to the box. Davy put his hand into the box and laughed. Nancy was twelve, and her school friends breathed heavily as she went forward, switching her skirt, and took a slip daintily from the box.

Summers said, and Billy, his face red and his feet overlarge, nearly knocked the box over as he got a paper out. She hesitated for a minute, looking around defiantly, and then set her lips and went up to the box. She snatched a paper out and held it behind her. The year-old became Northern Ireland's biggest ever lottery winner in She scooped up the jackpot after buying her ticket at a local shop where she had been printing off job application forms.

But after she won the jackpot, Loughrey struggled with her mental health and four months later was sectioned under the Mental Health Act. She later won her appeal against being sectioned.

It has destroyed my life. I have had six years of this. I don't believe in religion, but if there is a hell, I have been in it. It has been that bad," she said in , according to The Times.