Peter said: “Being able to provide a new home more suited to our needs means more to me than anything else I could do with the money – and I can’t wait to start the house hunting.”<\/p>\n
The father-of-three matched five main numbers and the bonus ball in the Lotto draw on 6 September after picking a random selection of numbers, and initially assumed there had been “some kind of glitch”. <\/p>\n
He said: “The shop assistant scanned the ticket and the screen said I had to contact the National Lottery. I even went to another shop to double-check because I thought it couldn’t be real.<\/p>\n
“Even when I realised that there was no glitch, I didn’t for a second think it would be a \u00a31m win! It is still sinking in now that I have won such a life-changing amount of money – it’s like hearing the final bell after the fight of your life.”<\/p>\n
Peter has followed boxing passionately since childhood and has even published a book on Merthyr Tydfil’s boxing scene. <\/p>\n