Lottery Winner & "King Of The Chavs" / Michael Carroll

They Walk Among Us - UK True Crime

They Walk Among Us

True Crime

4.6 • 6.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2018

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Millions of people worldwide hand over money every week to be in with a chance of winning the lottery. The odds aren't stacked in your favour, but you pay anyway. Maybe for a minute, your mind drifts to a place where you’ve won. You imagine what you would do with your millions, what you would buy family and friends you would treat, how much your life would be improved. Teenage lottery winner Michael Carroll’s fall was almost as fast as his rise after he won ten million pounds. His life spiralled into utter chaos, drugs, violence and murder within his family...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Season 3, Episode 12 of They Walk Among Us, a podcast dedicated to UK True Crime.
0:19.0	Listener caution is advised, as this episode contains adult themes and descriptions that some listeners may find distressing.
0:33.7	Millions of people worldwide hand over money every week to be in with a chance of winning the lottery.
0:40.3	The odds aren't stacked in your favour, but you pay anyway.
0:44.3	Maybe for a minute you mind drifts to a place where you've won.
0:48.3	You imagine what you would do with your millions, what you would buy, family and friends you would treat, how much your life
0:55.7	would be improved. Teenage lottery winner Michael Carroll's fall was almost as fast as his rise
1:02.5	after he won 10 million pounds. His life spiraled into utter chaos, drugs, violence and murder
1:10.3	within his family.
1:18.2	Saturday, November 2, 2002, Mikey Carroll and his girlfriend, Sandra, who was eight months
1:25.3	pregnant, went to a local corner shop called Clarks in
1:28.9	Downer Market, Norfolk. Mikey did something he hadn't done before. He bought two Lucky Dip
1:35.2	lottery tickets. He gave one to Sandra and he kept the other for himself. They went food
1:41.4	shopping in Kings Lynn. They were cautious with what they spent.
1:45.6	Sandra's only income came from her benefits,
1:48.4	and Mikey was a part-time binman that was only called in to help
1:52.0	when permanent members of staff were sick or on leave.
1:55.5	He too also claimed benefits.
1:58.8	Later Sandra returned to a council flat in Downham Market, and Mikey went back to
2:04.4	his Aunt Kelly's and Uncle Stevens where he had been living with them and their children.
2:09.5	That evening, Mikey was on babysitting duties while his aunt and uncle went out. Later that night
2:15.7	when they arrived home, Mikey was trying to figure out how to tune
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