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It cost just £1 - and gave Mickey Carroll the best 10 years of his life, at least, that's what he claims.

After scooping the £9.7m National Lottery jackpot back in 2002, Mickey, then 19, soon earned the nickname 'Lotto lout', as he spent his winnings on drugs, booze and hookers. The former binman gave £4m away to his family and then girlfriend and mother of his child, Sandra Aitken.

But he admits he blew the remaining £5.7m on maintaining an extravagant lifestyle, including wild holidays to Puerto Banus on the Costa del Sol with his mates.

He recalls: "We used to go to the local whorehouse because the girls there were better looking.

"We'd get our own drugs first and be high on cocaine by the time we rocked up at the brothels.