'I prayed to mum for a miracle and won £100k on the lottery'

'I prayed to mum for a miracle and won £100k on the lottery'

A man who prayed to his late mother for 'a miracle' after accumulating £14k in debt won £100k on the lottery just a couple of days later.

Terry Billings, 46, regularly played the lottery with his brother, Danny, 49, and mother, Patricia, before she passed away from bladder cancer in March 2020, aged 73.

Heartbroken Terry pledged to honour his mum's 'dying wish' - continuing to play weekly using their identical numbers. This entailed his mum's year of birth (46), his mum's favourite number (six), his son's birthday and his mum's birthday (22), his birthday (16) and his daughter's birthday (29).

"You just do not believe something like that could happen," the dad-of-two from Hitchin, Hertfordshire, said. "The week before the lot