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Jackpot winner now works as a coal delivery man

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Mickey Carroll bagged a mammoth £9.7m jackpot when he was just 19,

For 10 mind-blowing years, Mickey Carroll worked like a demon to maintain his reputation as the “Lotto lout”, using his £9.7million (Sh 1.2billion) jackpot to buy booze, drugs, sex and friends.

The money and the lifestyle are long gone, but as Mickey comes off his £10-an-hour shift as a coalman in Moray, Scotland, he says: “It didn’t go wrong – it was the best 10 years of my life for a pound.”

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