How £9million lottery winner’s life spiralled into tragedy and his urgent warning over why you should NEVER buy a ticket

A MULTIMILLIONAIRE lottery winner's life spiralled into tragedy after bagging the colossal win.

Keith Gough was overjoyed when he discovered the windfall and looked forward to settle into a luxurious retirement.

The Shropshire man, from Bridgnorth, quickly shelled out cash on a high-end BMW, a fleet of racehorses and even a VIP box from which he could watch Aston Villa games.

But, disaster struck just two years after his windfall, in 2005, when "boredom" plunged Keith into a downwards spiral.

He soon developed a nasty alcohol addiction and began binge drinking to kill the time.

As he tried to piece his life back together, the lotto winner admitted himself into a rehab facility called the Priory.

However, wife Louise threw in the towel on their marriage shortly afterwards.

The bitter separation, after 27 years, left the former baker feeling he had "ruined" his life.

However, it didn't hold him back for long and he decided to move into a £1million Cheshire mansion.

It came complete with a personal driver and gardener but there was yet more tragedy waiting around the corner.

Keith frittered away thousands on gambling and lost an eye-watering £700,000 fraudulent business schemes.

He had met a conman named James Prince in rehab, who later convinced him to invest in the bogus companies.

Prince admitted money laundering and fraud in 2009 and was jailed for three years and four months.

Speaking in an interview in 2009, Keith said: "Without routine in my life I started to spend, spend, spend. In the end I was just bored.