Thursday, March 1, 2012

VIC: Two times lottery winner falls on hard times


AAP General News (Australia)
02-23-1999
VIC: Two times lottery winner falls on hard times

MELBOURNE, Feb 23 AAP - A former rabbit trapper won first division in Tattslotto twice
within six years, but fell on hard times when instant wealth drove him to abuse alcohol, a
court has been told.

Raymond Robert Williams, 55, of Lavington, near Albury on the Murray River, was sentenced
to three months' jail in Albury Magistrates' Court yesterday for a series of offences
including assault and malicious damage.

During a plea for leniency, a close friend, Warwick Phegan, said Williams left school at
about 11 years old and joined his father …

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