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  "path": "/news/national-lottery-jack-tanbini-drug-dealing-scratchcard",
  "publishedAt": "2026-02-10T20:22:25.000Z",
  "site": "https://www.gbnews.com",
  "tags": [
    "National Lottery players face little-known 'checkout rule' across all UK stores",
    "National Lottery winner claims £13million prize after two-week search for lucky ticket",
    "National Lottery winner used jackpot to become drug kingpin with £288million pill factory in cottage",
    "The GB News Editorial Charter"
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  "textContent": "\n\n\nA man who scooped £100,000 from a £1 National Lottery scratch card as a teenager has seen his life spiral into serious criminality, culminating in a violent raid on a family home.\n\nJack Tanbini, now 30, struck lucky in 2014 but frittered away his windfall before turning to drug dealing and violent crime.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nIn November 2024, Tanbini and his associate Logan Hards, also 30, launched a terrifying attack on a flat occupied by siblings in Watson Street, Dundee.\n\nThe pair have both admitted threatening to kill the occupants and forcing their way into the property before ransacking it.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nTRENDING\n\nStories\n\nVideos\n\nYour Say\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nBoth men remain behind bars following their guilty pleas to the charges.\n\nTanbini is already serving a sentence exceeding five years for drug offences.\n\nCCTV footage captured the horrifying moment the two men repeatedly kicked at the flat's door while a woman inside could be heard screaming.\n\nAfter an initial failed attempt, they returned and successfully smashed their way in.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nThe recording captured their chilling threats to the terrified occupants.\n\nThe pair can be heard shouting: \"Hear you are away to get murdered.\n\n\"If you dinnae chuck the money out the windae, you're about to get petrol bombed.\n\n\"I'm going to kill your mum. Where's the money?\"\n\n### LATEST DEVELOPMENTS\n\n\n\n\n  * National Lottery players face little-known 'checkout rule' across all UK stores\n  * National Lottery winner claims £13million prize after two-week search for lucky ticket\n  * National Lottery winner used jackpot to become drug kingpin with £288million pill factory in cottage\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nThe footage then shows Hards and Tanbini escaping from the property carrying a bag containing unidentified stolen goods.\n\nThe siblings living at the address were subjected to the violent intrusion and explicit death threats before the attackers fled the scene.\n\nTanbini received a prison term of five years and six months in 2025 after officers discovered cocaine valued at £150,000 at his Dundee residence.\n\nThe former cash and carry apprentice had no previous history of violent offending before these incidents.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nHis solicitor Jim Caird addressed the court regarding his client's circumstances.\n\n\"There's no violence on his record. He is currently serving a very lengthy sentence,\" Mr Caird stated.\n\nMr Caird added: \"The sentence he received has been absolutely life-changing as he had never been in prison before. A very hard lesson has been learned.\"\n\nThe drug conviction marked Tanbini's first experience of imprisonment, transforming the one-time lottery winner into a convicted felon serving a substantial custodial sentence.\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nTanbini's lottery fortune came about through an unusual twist of fate when he was a teenager working as a delivery boy.\n\nA shopkeeper declined to accept payment for crisps after Tanbini had dropped off groceries, so he purchased a £1 scratch card instead.\n\nUpon winning, the young man declared his intentions to spend the money on driving lessons and a vehicle.\n\nHowever, by 2019, his solicitor revealed in court that the windfall had almost entirely vanished.\n\n\"He has had five years where he hasn't had to work. He has something like £2,000 left,\" Mr Caird explained at the time.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n**Our Standards:The GB News Editorial Charter **",
  "title": "National Lottery winner turned to drug dealing and threatened to petrol bomb family home after blowing scratchcard prize"
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