Lottery winners who discovered they'd won a staggering £35 million ended up as penniless as they'd been before buying the £2 ticket. When Edwina and David Nylan entered the draw on December 23, 2015, they could never have imagined that six of the winning numbers on the Lottomobile app. In what must have initially seemed like a true Christmas miracle, the cash-strapped Nylans realised that each of their six numbers - 01 - 02 - 04 - 19 - 28 - 41 - had come up trumps, bagging them the unbelievable sum of £35,410, 034.
Their dreams came crashing down in a spectacular fashion however after they tried to claim the jackpot - all because of their empty bank account. Lottery winner's seven life-changing words to her mum after checking her ticket Their dreams of a Christmas miracle were shattered following crushing news from Camelot ( Image: / Rossparry.co.
uk) Grandmother Edwina, of Fleetwood, Lancashire, said at the time: "When the numbers came up, it looked like we had got all six and had won the jackpot but when I checked, there was nothing from Camelot. I rang customer services at Camelot and the person I spoke to said they could see from their records that we had intended to buy those numbers but they said the purchase did not go through because we only had 60p in our account. "We had tried to top up the account and hadn't realised that hadn't registered either.
You get an email to confirm your purchase, but I didn't remember to check because it was just before Christmas and I .
