Lucky couple in dreamland after scooping £3.8m lottery jackpot

David Allsobrook, 48, and his 46-year-old wife Debra won £3,788,635 after matching all six numbers in the Lotto draw on October 6.

Mr Allsobrook, who has been playing the lottery since it began, said he once had a vivid dream that he had won the lottery and woke up, only to be disappointed.

The sales engineer said: “I literally woke up and thought I’d won the lottery and I was so disappointed that day when I found out I’d not won. I’m still waiting to think this is that same dream.”

Describing how he felt after being told he had won, Mr Allsobrook said: “You just don’t believe it. You think people are going to be shouting and screaming at you down the street. You just feel numb.”

The identities of the couple, from Stretton, Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, were revealed at a press conference yesterday.

Mr Allsobrook bought the winning ticket from his local Co-op in Stretton precinct.

He said he had played the same numbers, a random selection apart from 42, every week since the lottery began in 1994.

Mr Allsobrook said: “I sometimes don’t get to watch the National Lottery show so I always ask the assistant to check the tickets.

“We have the usual banter, I ask if have to go to work on the Monday, but this week the chap told me to phone the number of the back of the ticket because I’d won some cash.

“I called the National Lottery hotline and was chatting away expecting around a £100 or so, when the lady on the phone said with those numbers I’d won the jackpot of £3.7m.”

His wife, a stylist at a salon in Burton, did not believe him when he went and told her while she was colouring her cousin’s hair.

“She came outside and I said we’re millionaires. She said ‘No, no we’re not’ and I said ‘Yes, we are’. We had a hug and then she went back to work.”

Mr Allsobrook then went off to watch his club Burton Albion play Bristol Rovers, but not before finding a safe place to put the ticket, a metal sewing tin.

The couple, who have no children, have already bought their parents each new cars and plan to take their families on holiday with the first trip planned for Las Vegas.