£3.1 Million UK Lottery Winner Buys Son 200 Cigarettes, Gets Sued

A lottery jackpot-winning dad in britain didn’t make his son that is grown too with what he bought him together with his winnings recently

Winning a lottery isn’t always as lucky as it appears based on mounds of empirical evidence and if ever there was evidence that money takes relationships and tear them apart, it’s the tale of William Robertson and his lottery jackpot-winning father, Alex Robertson.

Alex, age 58 and from Scotland, was the lucky champion of a £3.1m ($4.8 million) Euromillions jackpot as an ingredient of a syndicate of 12 coach drivers, who all shared the;38m that is&pound$59 million) reward. But rather than sharing his fortune that is good with 35-year-od son William, the dad just bought him 200 cigarettes together with his winnings. Understandably, his son was a little disgruntled as of this action.

As being a outcome, William wound up presumably harassing his father through text messages as he demonstrably wanted more than a cigarettes that are few. Perhaps a platinum that is nice could have done the trick?

Arrested Development

William Robertson had been arrested after his father reported that the text messages had become threatening, but moved totally free recently after Alex failed to turn up at court to hold the charges out. Instead, he could be reportedly living it up within the Spanish resort of Benidorm, where he now resides with his partner Morag.

‘The allegation is one of harassment,’ explained William’s defense lawyer Paul Harkins. ‘It takes the form of three text messages that have been delivered on September 25 last year.