Man threw away £100,000 winning scratchcard

A post worker says his life has been ruined after he threw away a winning £100,000 scratchcard - because he didn't know the rules. Cemal Celikkanat's marriage has broken down and he says his workmates tease him after he binned a card bearing three £100,000 symbols. The Royal Mail driver, who has been playing scratchcards for six years, believed the amounts had to be in a line to win. But the day after throwing away a fortune he discovered Camelot paid out for three of a kind anywhere on the card in the £100,000 Blue game. The 38-year-old desperately checked the bin outside the shop where he bought the ticket - Charnock News and Booze, on Charnock Dale Road, Charnock - but was told it was emptied every day and the contents sent to Sheffield incinerator... Sheffield Telegraph