Hunt for Lottery Winner Who Left Winnings in Shopping Cart

In Cambridgeshire, UK, the hunt club is underway for a drawing winner named Barry who left wing a appreciate mark for an unrevealed but “significant” amount inward a supermarket shopping cart.

The hold back was discovered past honest citizen Richard Haslop inwards his local furcate of Tesco, a Brits foodstuff retail chain. Now, Haslop has launched a societal media charm to reunite “Barry” with his windfall.

Haslop told ITV News Anglia the cart contained sise lottery tickets for both the UK National and EuroMillions lottery draws, positive the check, which is made come out to unity Barry Levett. The chip is of “significant value,” Haslop emphasized.

It’s unclear whether the suss out was of the novelty, outsized variety commonly used in lottery promotional events or of more formal dimensions.

‘Anyone Know Barry?’

“Anyone cognise a Barry Levett? Reason i ask is that my wife found a identification number of drawing tickets in a Tesco’s trolley [cart] and we bid to homecoming to him,” wrote Haslop on Facebook.

The safari has attracted practically interestingness on societal media, but so far Levett has failed to reveal himself.

I’m Barry Levett and so is my wife!” quipped i Facebook user, who clear wasn’t.

Hislop says he will ask respondents to “provide a description of what the tickets are kept in” inwards order of magnitude to determine the existent Barry Levett from possible imposters.

While stories of lottery winners losing their profits through reckless spending are all too familiar, leaving them inwards a supermarket trolly appears to live an unprecedented occurence.

Missing Tickets

Instances of people mislaying their winning tickets, rendering them unable to arrogate monolithic jackpots, are more common. Last year, The Daily Mirror reported that British people couple Martyn and Kay Tott had split after the pressure sensation of missing come out on a £3 trillion jackpot had exposed cracks inwards their relationship. The Totts chased the jackpot through and through the courts for V years, to no avail.

It seems that Brits demand to make up to a greater extent attending when playing the lottery inward general. One dweller of that Sceptered Isle unknowingly holds the mankind enter for the biggest missed drawing jackpot.

In June 2012, a £63.8 billion ticket sold someplace inward Hertfordshire, just now north of London, expired without a winner. Despite a nationwide publicity campaign, no claimant came forwards within the 180-day deadline, and the money was redistributed to sound causes.