A LUCKY couple who scooped £100,000 on the lottery feared for their lives when robbers brandishing knives broke into their home just days after their win.
Lee Davies and Carryann Copestick, from Wolverhampton, banked the life-changing cash on a scratchcard in September 2017.
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But just days later, knifeman brazenly burst into their home at 3am and threatened the terrified couple before fleeing with £12,000 worth of items.
“After we won we were living the dream. We had invested in a house and planned for our wedding and went out and spent some money on clothes and jewellery from The Jewellery Quarter,” Lee said in 2017.
“Then on Monday night we were both asleep in bed and these men dressed in black with balaclavas, knives and bars came in the room, we were fearing for our lives.
“They shouted: ‘Where is the money? Where is the gold?’ Then the one holding a bar went up to Carryann and told her to get out of bed.
“The gold was already upstairs in the drawer by the side of the bed.
“They took off pretty quickly and we came down and called the police – we were just so lucky they didn’t wake the children. Something like this would have traumatised them for life.”
The thugs ran off with a £4,000 necklace, £11,000 worth of gold, a bracelet valued at close to £1,000.
They also grabbed two iPhones and eight rings during the night time raid.
Lee and Carryann were drinking in their triumph and had started planning a blow out wedding and eyeing the keys to a new home when the knifemen entered.
But the traumatic ordeal left them fearing for what could happen next.
“We told a few friends but everyone knew after we had been in the local newspapers,” Lee continued.
“Most of the money went into buying a house and other bits and pieces, so there is no money left now and no money in the house.
“The robbers knew what they were after because they asked where the money and gold were, they knew there was a chance it was in the house. They even tried to take my daughters birthday presents.
They shouted: ‘Where is the money? Where is the gold?’ Then the one holding a bar went up to Carryann and told her to get out of bed
Lee Davies
“They were hitting me with a bar and telling me to keep still, then they told Carryann to get out of the bed.
“She was scared they were gonna touch her but they said they wouldn’t, they just wanted the gold.
“We scared that they might come back, you never know, it really has shaken us.
“It was nice winning the money but it’s brought a lot of trouble with it. I would never stoop so low, coming into our home with children.
“We have been living on a high for two weeks and now this has happened.”
The Sun Online has reached out to West Midlands Police for comment.
Victims of the Lottery ‘curse’
MANY of us dream of winning big on the lottery but what about if you actually do? Surely it’s all flash cars and glam photoshoots, and maybe the odd film premiere? That wasn’t the case for this bunch, who – despite scooping millions of pounds – found themselves down in the dumps.
Cocaine King
The self-styled King Of Chavs Michael Carroll was wearing an electronic ankle tag when he scooped £9.7 million on the National Lottery in 2002.
He was aged 19 at the time and splurged his fortune on a six-bedroom mansion in Norfolk, which he kitted out with a swimming pool and car racing track.
Michael’s drug addiction saw him spending £2k a day on cocaine and eventually left him penniless.
He previously said: “The dealer who introduced me to crack has more of my lotto money than I do.”
Michael’s wife Sandra left him just a month after their wedding in 2003 after being appalled by his incessant partying. She also accused him of cheating on her with sex workers, walking away with £1.4million in a settlement.
He suffered a stint in jail for failing to comply with a drug treatment order and by February 2010 was declared bankrupt and claiming Jobseekers’ Allowance.
Michael was reportedly found working for £10 an hour chopping wood and delivering coal in 2019 after he lost his entire fortune.
Surgery Queen
Jane Park was the youngest ever Brit to win the EuroMillions when she scooped the £1 million jackpot aged 17 in 2013.
At the time of her win, she was an admin temp earning £8-an-hour, and was living in a two-bedroom Edinburgh council flat she shared with her mum Linda.
But things took a turn for the worse when she felt “empty” after her win and splurged £4.5k on a boob job 34B to 36FF and another few thousand on a Brazilian Butt Lift (BBL) in Turkey.
Jane was left fearing for her life after having a severe reaction to the anaesthetic and contracting sepsis back in 2017.
Two years later, she launched her OnlyFans to flog topless pictures of herself, followed by more plastic surgery to get her “dream body” with liposuction and a corrective BBL.
Now 28 and wiser, she believes winning the lottery cursed her life and she wishes it never happened.
Hilariously, she refers to herself as the ‘B&M Molly-Mae’.
Love and Loss
Gillian Bayford’s eight-year marriage was destroyed when she and ex-husband Adrian scooped £148 million on the EuroMillions in 2012.
Their lives changed overnight and put so much strain on their relationship, it totally broke down 15 months after their win.
Both Gillian, 50, and Adrian blamed the stress from their mind-boggling win as the root cause of their divorce.
In the decade following their divorce, Gillian became a mum at 48 years old with another man, purchased a £1.2 million mansion and started a property business.
“As far as [my daughter] is concerned I’m not a lottery winner, I’m just mum,” Gillian told The Sun. “Some things are easier because of the money but it doesn’t really change anything.
“You still have to change a nappy or deal with her being sick on you regardless of how much you’re worth.”