A LOTTERY winner who scooped at £13.5million jackpot makes use of his fleet of luxurious vehicles to assist folks in want.
Peter Congdon, 76, celebrated his massive win in 2015 by snapping up a variety of luxurious motors together with a BMW i8, BMW i3, Bentley Continental, Porsche Cayman and three Land Rover Defenders.
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However removed from pursuing a lifetime of selfishness, the retired bus driver and funeral director has used his fortune to assist others – beginning with a bride whose marriage ceremony was scuppered by the Covid-19 pandemic.
The lady’s marriage ceremony had been cancelled 4 instances, leaving her unable to get an appropriate car in time for the massive day.
Peter, from Truro, Cornwall, mentioned the bride was resigned to utilizing her dad’s automobile for the massive day, however was overjoyed to see a Bentley parked throughout the road and realise she did “have a stupendous marriage ceremony automobile”.
Grandfather-of-ten Peter advised the Manchester Night Information: “She wept a lot that she had to return in to get her make up fastened.”
He added: “Since then, once I hear of a bride who can’t afford a automobile, I will step in to volunteer. I feel I’ve taken greater than 25 Cornish brides to say ‘I do’.
“I at all times flip up in my greatest go well with to assist make it the happiest day of her life, and the one fee I would like is to see the enjoyment on their faces.”
When Peter first received, he gave £1.2million in funding in direction of an anti-gravity hydro pool on the Merlin Centre – a nauerotherapy unit in Cornwall – in tribute to his late spouse Rosemary, who suffered from A number of Sclerosis.
He additionally donated a brand new Vary Rover, to be auctioned off in a raffle by the centre.
Form-hearted Peter now makes use of his fleet of luxurious vehicles to assist folks in want – together with a “native lad” who needed to reach in fashion at his college promenade in Peter’s BMW.
One teenage woman who sat in his BMW “cried as a result of it was her dream automobile”, Peter mentioned.
He has additionally taken hospice sufferers on days out, together with one younger woman battling most cancers, who needed to be a “princess for a day”.
Peter additionally mentioned he heard a couple of lady who couldn’t afford to get to her brother’s funeral, so he took her in his Bentley at no cost.
He has additionally purchased a number of houses, which he rents out to “deserving native younger folks” to assist them get on the property ladder.
He had been driving an previous Ford Kuga on the time of his win.
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