lottery winner burned through his fortune at a rate of almost £100,000 a week, documents reveal.Colin Weir and his wife Christine, from Largs, scooped a £161million EuroMillions jackpot in 2011.But by the time he died, aged 71, last December his share of the windfall had shrunk by £40million.One financial expert said: “Spending £40million in eight years takes a bit of doing.”Colin, a former cameraman at STV, splashed out on cars and pumped money into his favourite football club, Partick Thistle.He also shared his fortune with friends and charitable trusts, and passed on money to his two children with Christine – Carly, 32, and Jamie, 30.Colin’s will shows that when he died suddenly from sepsis and an “acute kidney injury”, he owned.
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