Graffitti-covered walls and piles of junk in the garden… This is the trashed mansion Lotto lout Mickey Carroll sold at a £600k loss
Mickey Carroll was just 19 when he won nearly £10m, but he's proof money doesn't buy happiness
THESE are the amazing pictures which show the wrecked shell of Lotto lout Micky Carroll's "dream home" when he sold it.
The 'King of the Chavs' famously won £9.7 million on the lottery in 2002 aged 19, but frittered away his massive win.
Former binman Mickey, who was wearing an electronic tag when he bought his winning ticket in 2002, splashed out £340,000 on the six-bedroom home in Swaffham, Norfolk, after becoming a millionaire.
Not content with the swish property, called The Grange, as it was, he then lavished £400,000 on a series of upgrades.
Those included adding a swimming pool and Jacuzzi, as well as a car track in the garden.
This was supposed to be his dream home, the kind of place he'd always hoped to live.
So to celebrate finally getting the keys to the mansion he threw parties. A lot of parties.
The booze would freely flow, with Mickey squandering his bulging bank balance on drugs and prostitutes too.
Mickey's drug use and gambling eventually cost him his marriage to wife Sandra, who left him.
"I only started to think about three things - drugs, sex and gold," Mickey previously admitted.
"The dealer who introduced me to crack has more of my lotto money than I do."
This life of excess meant Mickey never thought about what he was spending, which was obvious when he described a robbery which took place in 2004.
"I would buy these huge necklaces," he recalled. "One cost me around £2,000.
"All of it was robbed in 2004. There was about £100,000 worth of gold stolen.
"But the next day I went out and bought it all again."
Mickey had as little regard for his home as he did his money, as is obvious by these pictures.
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They show the horrific state his home was in when he eventually moved out.
Graffiti was scrawled over walls and dog mess was stamped into the carpets.
His once-prized swimming pool is seen dirty and with rubbish littered across the bottom, while a toilet appears to have been smashed up and the room's tiles ripped from the walls.
The windows are boarded up and it's clear the property hadn't been painted for a while, with dirt smeared across walls.
Mounds of rubbish cover the the garden, with drawers, old seats and wood piled high.
Perhaps the most shocking scenes are in the kitchen, where units seem to have been ripped from the walls and floors.
The suite was obviously once white, but now black stains cover it and there is rubbish littering the floor. There are no worktops either, with tiles once again yanked from the walls.
With all this in mind it's not much of a surprise that Mickey sold his home at a loss in 2010, finally letting it go for £142,000 - £600,000 less than he spent on it.
Despite the staggering loss, Mickey insisted he was happy to see the back of the mansion because it only help bad memories for him.
Three years ago Mickey admitted he was broke, after spending his entire fortune on drugs, booze, holidays and lavishing cash on friends and family.
Today came the sad news that his uncle and aunt are thought to have died in a suspected murder-suicide.
Stephen Muncaster, 47, reportedly shot dead his wife Allison before turning the gun on himself at the luxury £400,000 house Carroll built for him before he squandered his fortune.
Stephen was married to Mickey's aunt Kelly at the time of Mickey's win, and the group were together when he realised his numbers had come up.
