Christmas Tree 4460 Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 I blew the lot' £5.5m lottery winner flees Spain penniless as bank seizes villa and bar When Lawrence Candlish won £5.5million on the National Lottery in 1997 it promised to make his dreams come true, including buying himself the double hip replacement he needed. The generous factory worker immediately shared his fortune with his many relatives, splashing out £370,000 to buy seven houses in the same street in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear so that they could be close together. Eventually he moved with his family to Benidorm on Spain's Costa Blanca to make a new life. But now the 36-year-old Newcastle United fan is back in England and admits he has 'blown the lot.' The penniless Geordie's Spanish villa has been seized by the bank and he has abandoned his Irish-themed pub. His sister has also lost her Spanish home and his mother's may follow. It is reported that Lawrence, 36, was so broke he had to borrow his taxi fare to the airport. Since the hard-drinking Geordie's's win, which put him at 61 on the Sunday Times rich list, fortune has not been kind to him. His best friend died, and in 2000 he and his family fled Tyneside after thugs torched his house and his sister's car. Then, in 2009, his beloved father was found hanged in the home his son bought him. Before Lawrence returned home from Spain, he told friends on Facebook: 'I won the lottery 13 years ago and blew the lot so I have plenty of stories to tell.' He added, worryingy, 'Mite have 6 grams of coke so I can chew me ear off watching Emmerdale.' Lawrence's story echoes that of former binman Michael Carroll who turned up to collect his £9.7million win wearing an electronic offender's tag. Nine years on, the self-styled King of Chavs, is back to where he started - on the dole after squandering his fortune on drugs, gambling and thousands of prostitutes. But last year he insisted he is just as happy getting £42 a week in jobseeker's allowance. Carroll said: 'The party has ended and it's back to reality. I haven't got two pennies to rub together and that's the way I like it. I find it easier to live off £42 dole than a million." 'It's a bit strange going on the dole again because that's what I was doing before I won. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DesperateDannyB 0 Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 What a fucking gommel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Idioteque 0 Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 What a waster Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizza 105 Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 Deserves it for opening an Irish theme pub. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monroe Transfer 0 Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 If I had that much money I'd invest most of it and/or put it into the bank so I could live off the interest. Surprises me to hear of a few lottery winners spending it all in the space of a few years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 15164 Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 I can understand it tbh. I like to think I'd be sensible like that - stash it in the bank and live off it - but I know I'd want to blow a good amount on this, that and the other. Travel, buying a business as a bit of a plaything on the side, all that stuff. And once you get used to having that kind of money it must be hard to stop, whether you're spending it on "worthy" things or not. Still, I'd expect people to point and laugh if the same thing happened to me, so all the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toonraider 0 Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 Its really pisses me off to see twats like that waste their money, they dont deserve it Give it to meeeeeeee!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 A fool and his money...as the saying goes. No way £5.5m would make you the 61st richest man in the country btw. I assume that journalistic masterpiece is the work of one of Thompson House's finest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neville Neville Neville 0 Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 (edited) If I won 5 million, i'd invest it in 83% of Alan Smith............. Edited January 23, 2011 by Neville Neville Neville Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JawD 99 Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 Wins millions, legs it to spain, blows it and comes back here where he expects you and me to pay for his budget lifestyle he prefers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 15164 Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 A fool and his money...as the saying goes. No way £5.5m would make you the 61st richest man in the country btw. I assume that journalistic masterpiece is the work of one of Thompson House's finest. There's a couple of online sources ( journalistic integrity ) that seem to suggest he was 61st= in the Rich List at the start of the 2000s. Whereas nowadays you'd need upward of £1bn to get there. I know there's a bit of inflation going on, but I smell a rat... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 61st in Gateshead mebbies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckyluke 2 Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 Lawrence's story echoes that of former binman Michael Carroll who turned up to collect his £9.7million win wearing an electronic offender's tag. Nine years on, the self-styled King of Chavs, is back to where he started - on the dole after squandering his fortune on drugs, gambling and thousands of prostitutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 Love how he won the lottery and moved to Benidorm like Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 42778 Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 What a fucking harry ramp. Re winning the lottery, starting a business is the last thing I would do. To win all that money and to then put it at risk by setting up a business, and THEN have to work? Fuck that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 What's with all the rhyming slang on this forum recently Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckyluke 2 Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 The cockney mafia's malignant influence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 41368 Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 How the fuck do you blow £5.5 million on Fosters and Greggs steak bakes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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