‘Lotto’ gran Susanne Hinte, 49, who claimed she put £33million winning ticket in washing machine found dead at home
The 49-year-old is believed to have had a heart attack at her home on Monday afternoon
LOTTO gran Susanne Hinte, who tried to claim a £33 million lotto jackpot by alleging she had put the ticket in the washing machine, has died.
The 49-year-old is believed to have had a heart attack at her home on Monday afternoon.
Last year the grandmother of four, known to friends as Sanne, contacted Camelot claiming a battered slip pulled out of her washing machine with no date or barcode was the lucky ticket.
She alleged she had won half the £66 million jackpot from the January 9th draw in 2016 after it was revealed the winning ticket was bought in her home town of Worcester.
German-born Sanne sent in the crumpled ticket but when officials confirmed the true winner had come forward with the real ticket her plan was exposed.
Susanne’s claim had been among several hundred when it was revealed the winner was from Worcester. But a source said most would have been dismissed immediately.
Neighbours described how police and an ambulance crew suddenly raced to Susanne Hinte's home yesterday afternoon.
She is believed to share the £175,000 semi detached home on a housing estate in Worcester with her son.
It is understood the German born gran-of four died as a result of heart failure having suffered with a heart condition for a number of years.
Her agent Barry Tomes said: "I was told last night but I was only able to verify it this morning that her son had found her at the house.
"I believe it was heart failure or a heart attack that killed her because she hadn't been very well for a number of years.
"People would accuse her of faking it - but obviously it was genuine and she couldn't walk more than a few metres without struggling.
"She had a lot of enemies but she was a very talented and creative woman and this is very sad news and my thoughts are with her family.
"Whatever she's been involved with in the past nobody deserves to go like that at such a young age."
One neighbour, who did not want to be named, said: "Its desperately sad. There was a lot of activity here last night and we knew it wasn't looking good.
"She had a lot of critics but we always found her to be a good neighbour and she was certainly quite a character."
A police spokesman confirmed: "Police were called by the ambulance service to an address on Borrowdale Drive, Worcester at 5:40pm yesterday (Monday, 14 August).
"A woman, aged 49, was declared dead at the scene. Her death is not being treated as suspicious and has been referred to the coroner.
"Next of kin are aware."
West Midlands Ambulance spokesman said:"We can confirm we were called to reports of a woman in cardiac arrest at a property in Borrowdale Drive, Worcester, at 5.35pm yesterday (Mon).
"An ambulance and a paramedic officer attended the scene.
"Unfortunately, it quickly became apparent on arrival at the scene that nothing could be done to save the patient and she was confirmed deceased."
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Sanne provoked a storm of criticism by the false claim and later revealed she regretted the whole incident and felt suicidal.
Last year she said: "I wanted to be dead.
"I couldn't understand why all of a sudden I was hated by so many people.
"I didn't do anything wrong."
In January her former friend was found guilty of a revenge porn offence after selling pictures of her topless and wearing lingerie to a national newspaper.
Worcester magistrates' court was told Julie Howard received £750 for the images to get her back for hiding her hair curlers in a tumble dryer.
Howard was given a suspended six-week jail term after she was found guilty of disclosing sexual pictures.
Sanne had also been before the courts following the false claim.
Last July she was cleared of stealing a woman's purse following a three day trial in Birmingham.
And in April 2016 a charge that she stole an Xbox controller from a man she had met online was dropped when he declined to attend court.
She lived at the house with son Brandon who earlier this year had lost a child.
Sanne wrote on Facebook said: "Watching ur own child grieve over the loss of his own child has to be the most unbearable pain u can feel as a mother as nothing u say or do can take their pain away.
"I love u so very much Brandon I am so very proud of you and Becky for being so very brave today which I no was the hardest day of your life.
"And I'm so so glad I had the oppunity in meeting my little gran child while he lay fast asleep with Angel's watching over him keeping him safe u were perfect in every way."
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