National Lottery refuses to pay £ 4,000 to players who "bought a ticket with a stolen debit card"

The National Lottery opened an investigation after the bosses began to be wary of a pair of scratch card winners.

Camelot thinks that Mark Goodram, 36, and Jon-Ross Watson, 31, have used a stolen debit card to purchase the ticket for £ 4 million.

They said the map they used belonged to a friend named John, but that "John" was nowhere else, according to The Sun.

Now the lottery bosses refused to pay Bolton's pair while they were conducting their own investigations.

Both have been on Bolton's list of people most wanted in recent years for crimes committed in the city.

Watson has several convictions, including bank fraud.

Goodram was jailed for burglary last year, according to local reports.

He told the paper, "I'm going on a cruise to the Caribbean, then to Las Vegas. But first I need a pbadport.

Watson said he wanted to buy luxury properties and take care of himself.

Camelot refuses to pay people with stolen tickets, but has not explained his procedure for using stolen bank cards.

Last year, an unemployed father who buys six scratch cards a day has been denied £ 200,000 after being accused of having tampered with the card.

Camelot said he had edited a letter so that it looked like an E instead of an F. He insisted that the ticket was genuine.