A Euromillions winner spent £40 million of his winnings over the course of eight years, after bagging a huge £161 million with a lucky ticket.
Colin Weir and his wife Christine scooped the mega jackpot in 2011, but Colin died just eight years later in 2019.
But by the time he passed away in December, aged 71, records show he'd already spent £40m of his winnings.
And one financial expert said: “Spending £40 million in eight years takes a bit of doing.”
Colin, a former cameraman at STV, splashed out on cars and pumped money into his favourite football club, Partick Thistle - reports the Daily Record.
He also shared his fortune with friends and charitable trusts, and passed on money to his two children with Christine – Carly, 32, and Jamie, 30.
Colin’s Will shows that when he died suddenly from sepsis and an “acute kidney injury”, he owned furniture, jewellery and artworks valued at about £212,000.
His garage housed four luxury cars – a vintage Bentley Arnage, worth £10,000, a £28,250 three-year-old Jaguar F-Pace SUV, a £24,000 four-year-old Mercedes Benz E Class Estate and a 2019 Mercedes Benz V Class people carrier, valued at about £35,000.
He bought a 55% stake in Partick Thistle a month before he died so he could donate the club to the fans and put its future in the hands of the local community.
Colin had suffered years of ill health and he and Christine divorced last summer after 38 years of marriage.
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At the time of his death, he lived in a £1.1 million five-bedroom seafront home in Ayr, which he bought in June 2018 after his marriage split.
He signed over sole ownership of £3.5 million Frognal House, near Troon, to former psychiatric nurse Christine.
Papers show his council tax was £37.08 in credit and he had the maximum £50,000 in National Savings and Investments Premium Bonds.
Racing fan Colin also partly owned three thoroughbreds, including geldings Knighted and Felony, and Irish mare If You Say Run.
