Sons smashed up father's new cars with hammer after he wouldn't share £3.1million lottery jackpot
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Two brothers smashed their father's new cars with claw hammers after he refused to share his £3.1million lottery winnings.
Alex Robertson Jr, 45, said he and his brother William smashed the windows of the two Mitsubishis after their father Alex Snr told him he would see 'f*** all' from his winnings, giving him just 200 cigarettes.
He said the family were ‘ripped apart’ after Alex Snr was part of a 12-strong syndicate of Stagecoach workers from Corby, Northamptonshire who shared £38million in 2012.
Speaking to The Sun, Alex Jr said: ‘We ended up taking hammers to his two new 4x4 Shoguns.
‘We walked up his driveway at 11 o'clock at night and put two claw hammers through the windows of the car.
‘We then reported ourselves to the police.’
He told the newspaper at the time: ‘This lottery win was the worst thing that ever happened to us — it ripped our families apart.’
Alex Snr later accused William of harassment, saying he had sent him threatening text messages that had left him petrified.
William was due to stand trial at Northampton Magistrates’ Court, but the case was dropped in 2013 after Alex Snr decided against flying back from Benidorm, Spain, where he lived with his partner Morag, to give evidence in the trial.
And the Robertsons are far from the only family that has been torn apart after winning millions in the lottery.
Last week Kirk Stevens, 39, said he had been dumped by his partner and cut off from a jackpot of £10,000 a month for the next 30 years.
Mr Stevens and Laura Hoyle, 40, from Nottingham, won the jackpot in the National Lottery's Set For Life draw in March 2021.
Mr Stevens had been letting Miss Hoyle live with him in his £240,000 three-bedroom house for free as he 'didn't expect her to pay rent' - with the agreement that she would be the one to pay £25-a-week for lottery tickets.
The deal paid off for the couple, but Mr Stevens claimed Miss Hoyle has now broken up with him, snubbed him from the winnings and 'even wants our two dogs'.
The couple had said they planned to set up a ghost hunting business and were photographed holding their cheque - written out to both of them.
Mr Stevens argued he should be given a share of the winnings after the split, but although the novelty cheque handed to the couple had both of their names on it, the ticket was bought with Miss Hoyle's account.
Camelot has said that all Lotto wins are paid to an individual, even in a syndicate, and told The Sun that the winning account was hers.
However a year and a half later Miss Hoyle dumped Mr Stevens, got a new house, and he says she took the jackpot, The Sun reported.
