Revealed: Mystery woman who says she washed £33million ticket with winning numbers

The mystery woman at the centre of the £33million Lotto jackpot riddle has been revealed as a divorced German grandmother.

Susanne Hinte, 48, claims she accidentally washed the winning ticket in a pair of jeans and is waiting to hear from Camelot to see if she is still eligible for the mega payout.

Miss Hinte, who lives in Warndon, Worcester, just a mile away from Ambleside News where the golden ticket was sold, was at home Saturday ‘in floods of tears.’

Speaking outside Miss Hinte’s rented home, her daughter Natasha Douglas, 28, who works as a shop assistant at Morrisons, said: ‘She has never said she “I’ve won the lottery”, she’s said she has the winning numbers and I’ve seen them.

The day Camelot launched a huge hunt for the unclaimed ticket worth £33,035,323 Miss Hinte went into the shop with the ticket which she claimed had been put through the washing machine.

The winning numbers, 26, 27, 46, 47, 52 and 58 were visible but the date and barcode had been rubbed off.

Shopkeeper Natu Patel, 64, helped Miss Hinte place the battered ticket on a piece of card ‘to stop it crumbling’ and she was encouraged to send it to Camelot for verification.