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Irregular News for 07.18.06
London - The tearaway who won almost £10 million (R132 million, $18.3 million) on the lottery has been forced to borrow money after blowing his fortune.
Michael Carroll has had to take out a £130 000 mortgage on his £245 000 home in Norfolk. The 23-year-old Carroll, who is struggling to fund his drug-fuelled parties, also wants a £120 000 loan on a house he rents out.
Carroll's coffers have emptied with astonishing speed since he won the lottery four years ago.
In February, the former dustman admitted he had just £1.65 million left after lavishing several million pounds on family and friends and more than £1 million on drugs.
He has also spent a small fortune on his trademark chunky gold jewellery and a fleet of cars.
Repairs to properties he has wrecked with raucous parties have also cost him thousands. In the past few months, Carroll has also lost an estimated £80 000 on a property deal in Dubai after the market fell.
And the value of his third home in Norfolk has dropped from £320 000 to £200 000 after he made his neighbours' lives a misery by turning the garden into a race circuit.
Carroll is notorious for his yobbish behaviour and answering criticism with a one-fingered salute. He arrived to collect his winnings wearing an offender's tag, fitted after he was found drunk and disorderly.
He has been in trouble with the law ever since, appearing before the courts with dozens of antisocial behaviour orders.
In 2004, Carroll was jailed after failing to comply with a drug treatment order, imposed for cocaine possession. Last year, he was handed an order by magistrates in Norfolk for catapulting ball bearings at cars from his Mercedes.
He vowed to turn over a new leaf. But in February he was sentenced to nine months at Norwich Crown Court for running amok with a bat during a Christian rock concert.
Although Carroll provided the money for the home he has mortgaged and the bungalow he hopes to get a second mortgage on, both properties are actually in the name of his aunt, Kelly Muncaster.
Carroll is working with a biographer to write a book about his life, which he hopes will give a desperately needed boost to his flagging funds. - Daily Mail
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London - The tearaway who won almost £10 million (R132 million, $18.3 million) on the lottery has been forced to borrow money after blowing his fortune.
Michael Carroll has had to take out a £130 000 mortgage on his £245 000 home in Norfolk. The 23-year-old Carroll, who is struggling to fund his drug-fuelled parties, also wants a £120 000 loan on a house he rents out.
Carroll's coffers have emptied with astonishing speed since he won the lottery four years ago.
In February, the former dustman admitted he had just £1.65 million left after lavishing several million pounds on family and friends and more than £1 million on drugs.
He has also spent a small fortune on his trademark chunky gold jewellery and a fleet of cars.
Repairs to properties he has wrecked with raucous parties have also cost him thousands. In the past few months, Carroll has also lost an estimated £80 000 on a property deal in Dubai after the market fell.
And the value of his third home in Norfolk has dropped from £320 000 to £200 000 after he made his neighbours' lives a misery by turning the garden into a race circuit.
Carroll is notorious for his yobbish behaviour and answering criticism with a one-fingered salute. He arrived to collect his winnings wearing an offender's tag, fitted after he was found drunk and disorderly.
He has been in trouble with the law ever since, appearing before the courts with dozens of antisocial behaviour orders.
In 2004, Carroll was jailed after failing to comply with a drug treatment order, imposed for cocaine possession. Last year, he was handed an order by magistrates in Norfolk for catapulting ball bearings at cars from his Mercedes.
He vowed to turn over a new leaf. But in February he was sentenced to nine months at Norwich Crown Court for running amok with a bat during a Christian rock concert.
Although Carroll provided the money for the home he has mortgaged and the bungalow he hopes to get a second mortgage on, both properties are actually in the name of his aunt, Kelly Muncaster.
Carroll is working with a biographer to write a book about his life, which he hopes will give a desperately needed boost to his flagging funds. - Daily Mail
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