Your bang on the money, those poor people lost About 30k they said with fees and promises made in connection with the house, he got 4 years jail time.

Apparently he had a mistress as well and got her to take out a 30k loan to buy a new house new life away but took his wife away on hold pretending it was the lottery money.

The wife earlier on actually rang Camelot but they couldn't tell her if it was right or not but se gave them an approx date and Camelot said it was 8.9 million that was won that night so the wife approached the husband and said " so we have won 8.9 mill then?" and he went " agh yeah that's right love"

Was on Irish tv but his name was hammerly or something like that