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The butcher, the sister and the £6m lottery winnings
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Lottery news from http://www.telegraph.co.uk/


When Clyde Baxter won £6.75 million in the National Lottery seven years ago, he decided to shower his family with his new-found wealth.

Among relatives to benefit from the Leicester butcher's largesse was his sister, Virginia, who received £500,000.

She also suggested that he buy a place in the sun and invest £500,000 in a mansion in Surfers Paradise, the gaudy Australian holiday strip on the Queensland coast.

The high-rise hotels, shopping malls and themed restaurants have long been known as the haunt of the nouveaux riches and what Australians dismiss as "the white shoe brigade" - unscrupulous developers with bad fashion sense.

Miss Baxter told her brother he could not buy the luxury investment property in his own name because he had only a business visa to Australia. Instead, she suggested, he should register it in her name because she was an Australian resident. They were close, he trusted her and so he went ahead.

But six years later, an ugly dispute has erupted over the seaside retreat and it came to court yesterday.

Mr Baxter, 35, claims he bought the property with the intention of renovating and selling it; his 37-year-old sister insists he bought it for her as a gift. He told the Queensland supreme court, in Brisbane: "She said, 'You're not worried are you? I'm not going to rip you off'."

The latest lottery winner to learn the hard way that a huge fortune does not necessarily bring familial harmony, Mr Baxter broke down in tears as he recalled how he told his father he would make him a millionaire - promptly writing a cheque for £1 million.

But there were many demands on his new-found wealth. Mr Baxter told the court that a month after his win, his sister began pestering him, insisting that she should have received £1 million too.

In August 2000 he agreed to travel to Australia with her to visit their parents, who were living by the beach in Queensland, and to buy a house together. He told the court she talked him into buying the mansion in Surfers Paradise even though he preferred other properties.

All was well for a while but by January 2004 Miss Baxter was allegedly claiming that the house, which she had renovated, was worth £2 million and belonged to her.

After a series of blazing rows, Mr Baxter, who now lives on the Gold Coast, near Surfers Paradise, decided to sue his sister for the £500,000 he paid for the home.





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