The Supermarket Lottery Syndicate Ladies Talk About Life 10 Years After Their $27 Million Win

Seven women and two men in the British Lotto syndicate each pocketed £1.4 million while two members, who had double shares in the group's 13 entry lines, won £2.8 million. Photo: Mail Online

It was 10 years ago when eleven ladies from a Tesco supermarket won £18 million (US$27million) in UK's National Lottery. And according to an interview with the Daily Mail, they haven't changed a bit.

PHOTO: Bruce Adams, Daily MailSyndicate leader Rose Bradley (right) started the group. She had already worked at the store for nine years when it got a Lottery terminal  in 1995 and she decided to play.

Enlisting her friends to form a syndicate, Rose insisted on a couple of rules.

"You paid a pound a line, if you didn’t pay you didn’t get your share if they won, and the numbers could never be changed."

"We had 13 of us paying in at a pound a line — when a member dropped out someone else would pick up their line."

A £1,000 prize from five numbers one year left them all wondering if that was the only windfall they would ever have.

That is, until the evening of Monday July 26, 2005, when Sue Brusby — who had recently been given a pay rise to £200 a week — returned from a weekend away in the family caravan and casually checked the group’s numbers.

"And there they were,’ she recalls. "I said to Peter: “I think we’ve won."

It’s in this way that she got two shares, with her husband Keith, 70, picking up a share, giving the couple £4.2 million.

SYNDICATE TIPS: This group was lucky - there were no disputes or disagreement over the splitting of the funds. But it is always prudent to have a signed agreement like this one to avoid any future issues: Lottery Syndicate Agreement

WINNERS CIRCLE: This is a private syndicate by Ken Silver that anyone can join, which increases your chances through improving play from 14 lines to 4,200 for the same price. Go here: Winners Circle.

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