by Anton Johan
The great thing about the relatively few people around the world who are lucky enough to win multi-million pound lotteries is that they comprise all types of people which is what makes their respective stories so interesting.
Take Mikey Carroll, a typical English lager lout who eight years ago when he was only 18 couldn't believe his luck when he won a whopping £9.7 million
UK National Lottery jackpot. Then a binman, his life literally changed overnight.
The lucky lotto winner decided that such a large windfall landing on his lap was a sure sign to enjoy his life and have as much fun as possible without worrying too much about the consequences. Which is precisely what young Mikey did.
Mikey bought a five bedroom house in the country which became his 'party central'. In place of boring financial advisers and stodgy bank managers, Mikey chose to spend his time at car dealerships and with call girls and drug dealers.
With more money than he could even contemplate and being such an impressionable young lad, it wasn't long before Mikey fell off the rails completely and fell foul of the law. Yes, the UK
National Lottery jackpot winner was arrested.
Affray (fighting in public) and cocaine possession were two of the charges bought against the raucous UK National Lottery winner which resulted in him being jailed for five months. But even a short stretch in the nick didn't help Mikey.
Upon his release he reportedly returned to his boozy, druggie and whoring ways, spending cash like it was going out of fashion and allegedly bedding up to four prostitutes a day, drunk and high. Fast forward to the Mikey Carroll of today.
The older, wiser and more humbled father of two lives with his girlfriend Gemma in a modest house in Downham Market, Norfolk without a penny to his name. And here's the best part. He has re-applied for his £200-a-week binman job.
Said the one-time UK Lottery jackpot winner, 'I'm not embarrassed or ashamed. I want to start straight away. As a binman I'm not going to have the high life I used to - the drugs, whores, drink and cars, but it don't matter. I'm happier now.'
