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MrsFab
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Finders Not Keepers in Lottery Case
Lottery Case in UK
July 27) -- Michael and Amanda Stacy won 30,000 British pounds after hitting the jackpot on a lottery ticket late last year. The only problem with their good fortune was it wasn't theirs.
The ticket -- worth more than $49,000 -- had been bought by Dorothy McDonagh, who later dropped it on the floor of a supermarket, according to an Agence France-Presse report.
After McDonagh proved she was the rightful owner of the ticket, a court in Swindon, England, ordered the Stacys to return 15,000 pounds to McDonagh, plus 111 pounds in interest, in a decision announced Friday. The couple had already spent the other half of the prize money.
"It's jolly decent of them to let me have a half share of my win," McDonagh said after the court decision. The 61-year-old will have to sue Camelot Group, the operators of the UK National Lottery, if she wants to recover the remainder of her money.
The Stacys, who in April were given an 11-month suspended jail sentence for fraud in the case, claimed they thought the money was rightfully theirs, under the assumption "finders keepers."
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yankinmanc
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Re: Finders Not Keepers in Lottery Case
Personally I think the woman should have kept closer tabs on her lottery ticket. .The settlement is more than fair imo. How mean am I?
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| Posted 7/28/09 1:21 PM |
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Ophelia
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Re: Finders Not Keepers in Lottery Case
Posted by racheeeee
Personally I think the woman should have kept closer tabs on her lottery ticket. .The settlement is more than fair imo. How mean am I?
I agree with you.
I also don't get how it was "fraud" on the part of the people who originally presented the ticket as the winner.
unless they were asked specifically if they bought the ticket and lied.
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| Posted 7/28/09 1:23 PM |
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MrsFab
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Re: Finders Not Keepers in Lottery Case
yea the fraud thing shocked me- especially the delayed 11 month jail sentence- thats really crazy, they just picked up a lost lotto ticket
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| Posted 7/28/09 1:30 PM |
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HelloThere
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Re: Finders Not Keepers in Lottery Case
Posted by MrsFab
After McDonagh proved she was the rightful owner of the ticket...
How does someone PROVE they bought a specific ticket?
Message edited 7/28/2009 1:53:02 PM.
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| Posted 7/28/09 1:51 PM |
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CroatianBride
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Re: Finders Not Keepers in Lottery Case
I don't understand how they could've proved it was hers...there is no name on it and all lotto tickets must be bought with cash...I think she's an *** for losing a winning lottery ticket and I would've obied by the finders keepers rule.
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| Posted 7/28/09 2:00 PM |
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springchick
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Re: Finders Not Keepers in Lottery Case
Posted by HelloThere
Posted by MrsFab
After McDonagh proved she was the rightful owner of the ticket...
How does someone PROVE they bought a specific ticket?
she can say when and where she bought the ticket, and they can look at the camera and match the info with the time and date in the ticket
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| Posted 7/28/09 2:03 PM |
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yankinmanc
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Re: Finders Not Keepers in Lottery Case
I believe that she buys her lottery ticket in a small village shop, and probably is well known to the owner/operators of the shop, also, I think she plays the same numbers every week. Don't quote me on that, but thats what I think the story is.
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| Posted 7/28/09 2:16 PM |
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