Couple miss out on £182m Euromillions because their ticket payment failed

Virgin Radio

5 Mar 2021, 11:44

Ugh. You can't help but feel terrible for this young couple who narrowly missed out on a life-changing jackpot - just because their ticket payment didn't process. Even worse, it wasn't just a few quid. It was £182million.

Rachel Kennedy and Liam McCrohan from Hertfordshire were devastated when they thought they had won the big bucks - but ended up with nothing after the ticket failed to register.

The students played their usual numbers of 6, 12, 22, 29, 33, 6 and 11 for five weeks prior and Rachel's account was set up to automatically buy a ticket - but she didn't have enough money in there so the ticket payment didn't go through.

The business student told The Sun: “I went on the app and it said ‘Winning Match’ and I thought ‘Oh my god I’ve won.’

“So I called my boyfriend Liam and my mum into the room and they couldn't believe it either so I was like ‘oh my god I need to call them’.

“I called the number thinking that I had won £182million and they said ‘yeah you've got the right numbers but you didn’t have the funds in your account for the payment of the ticket so it didn’t actually go through’.

“I was on top of the world when I thought I had won but when I found out I hadn’t, Liam was actually more upset than I was."

Liam added: “She was quite relaxed about it but I had kind of spent it in my head already.

"I was absolutely heartbroken when we heard the man on the phone say we hadn’t actually bought the ticket.

“I was already picturing our dream house and the dream car, I think I was getting a bit carried away to be fair.

“On the app it really made it look like we had won because it comes up in orange and it says winning match.

“When you looked at it and it was her usual numbers it just really looked like she had won and I got a bit carried away.”

Rached admitted: “I’ve never won anything before, we’ve just got the worst luck when it comes to stuff like this.”

As heard on Kate Lawler's show being covered by Giovanna Fletcher weekdays from 4pm-7pm on Virgin Radio UK.