10:30 am, January 3, 2014
A YEAR after winning a £148m EuroMillions jackpot, a woman split from her husband to live with the car dealer who sold her a fleet of luxury cars.
Gillian Bayford left the £6m mansion she shared with her husband Adrian in Suffolk and moved into a new home near Dundee with car dealer Alan Warnock.
Warnock, who has now left his job as sales manager at John Clark Audi in Dundee, met Bayford at the dealership where she bought five cars for herself and her family, including three £60,000 Q7 SUVs and two £40,000 Q5s.
According to The Express, Warnock is telling everyone he is ‘very happy’ with his new life.
Bayford announced the split from her husband, who actually bought the winning EuroMillions ticket, in November.
The couple, from Haverhill in Suffolk, blamed the stresses of the jackpot win for the collapse of their nine-year marriage.
Warnock is now helping the former hospital care worker settle into a £600,000, five-bedroom villa set in half an acres of ground a few miles away from her home town of Dundee.
A friend told The Express: ‘Alan and Gillian are an item and are serious about each other. He sold her the cars she wanted – and romance has blossomed since then.’
Bayford and her ex-husband are said to have agreed to split their lottery fortune, which amounts to the second biggest payout in the UK.
