A LOTTERY winner scooped £411,000 on the Postcode Lottery after an eerie message which spurred her to sign up.
Leyla scooped the prize after ‘a message’ randomly came into her head.
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The hard working mum from Tilbury in Essex is now planning on holidays for all the family, with New York and Turkey top of the list after the big win.
She said: “I got a message a couple of months ago to join. It was a strong message I received… a strong feeling.
“I wasn’t following social media, and I don’t watch normal TV. I was sitting here one day and it just came into my head, like a voice, telling me to join the Postcode Lottery.
“I questioned myself and thought I was feeling it for a reason and that night I joined. Now this just two months later.”
Leyla said the win had come at the right time after a rough year. Her husband is facing surgery for a hernia soon.
She said: “It’s come at such a needed time. We’ve had a really tough 12 months. My husband is quite unwell and needs some surgery.
“He’s a really, really hard worker and I’m off a lot of the time with the kids.
“He just keeps going and works every weekend possible while not being in the best of health himself.”
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She added, “He’s not going to believe me. He didn’t believe me when I got a phone call to say I’d won. He just said, ‘I’ll believe it when I see it’. I never, ever thought this would happen. My mind didn’t go to this figure at all.”
Now Leyla, formerly of Glasgow, is dreaming of taking her nine-year-old son and daughter, aged six, on a festive break to New York and their first family holiday in years.
She said, “It’s been the kids’ dream to go to New York for Christmas for such a long time because of Home Alone 2. We’ll definitely look at doing it, it’s never been on the cards before.
“This will allow us to breathe. We’ll go on a family holiday in the summer which has not been possible for quite some years because of work. I’d love to go to southern Turkey.”
