A shop owner has "people in every day" after a rumour that the £195m winning Euromillions ticket was sold in a Merseyside town.
Robert Boyle has found people are coming into his Bargain Booze shop on Liverpool Road in Formby all the time asking whether he sold the winning ticket after a shop assistant told the ECHO she was sure that she had sold the winning ticket. The employee said last month, just a week after the record-breaking jackpot was claimed by one lucky player: "I'm sure I sold [the winning ticket]. I remember serving one lad, I looked at the ticket and the numbers just looked right.
"Our boss is on holiday and we haven't heard anything from Camelot about whether we were the ones to sell it."
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Robert, who was on holiday in Cancun at the time, has even said people have asked him if it was him that one the eye-watering amount. He said: "It's great that everybody is talking about it and people have been coming in asking about it.
"People even think it's me because I was away in Mexico at the time. Every other customer comes in asking about it. You get a big payout if you sell the winning ticket as well."
The 55-year-old who has owned the shop along with his wife since 1996 came back from his relaxing break away to find people were putting his shop at the centre of the rumours, and he even received a letter earlier this month from someone claiming to have won the jackpot.
The supposed winner wrote a hand-written letter which said: "Dear Bargain Booze,
"I don't know where you got the idea that the Euromillions ticket was bought in your shop. I am that winner and bought the ticket in Paisley.
"Just for the record! Mr J.U."
Camelot neither confirmed nor denied where the ticket or the winner were from with the lucky ticket holder not choosing to go public.
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