This man quit work to help his dad fight cancer - and then won a £157k Porsche

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When Sean Pitkin received his last pay packet he was facing an uncertain future. He'd quit his job in the care industry to become a full-time carer for his father, who is suffering from stage-four cancer. 

But as he arrived home from his final shift, he was greeted by a familiar face. It was Sean Hall, a presenter at BOTB, the prize draw company. And he was there to deliver a prize worth nearly £160,000. 

It was a Porsche 911 GT3, one of the icons of the sports car world, with 503bhp and a 0-60 time of 3.4 seconds. 

And, remarkably, Sean had paid just 26p for his winning ticket, as it was one of the promotional giveaways offered each week by BOTB. 

As he was shown around his new car, he said: "I'm a bit shaky to be fair, it's one of those things that you don't ever expect to happen."

He went on to explain that the timing of his massive win could not have been more serendipitous, as he had just seen his source of income dry up that day. 

He said: "It sounds a bit bad, but I kind of got my last pay packet today, from my last job, and it's just been the last few bits of money kicking around basically. 

"I made myself redundant. I was working for a care company doing all the engineering and maintenance stuff. 

"I left there for a month to support Dad, and after a month, I realised it was a lot more than I thought I was going to deal with."

He described winning the £157,000 Porsche as a "game-changer" and admitted he couldn't stop shaking from the shock of winning a life-changing prize. 

Sean's Porsche was a 2021 model, with just 13,000 miles on the clock, and it was one of dozens of cars given away every year by BOTB. 

Tickets to win cars of this calibre usually cost two or three pounds, but Sean's GT3 was in a promotion, and similar prizes currently offered for cut-price tickets include a chance to win a 2018 Mercedes AMG GT for just 19p. 

To find out more about the prizes on offer at BOTB, or to see other winners receiving their prizes, click here. 

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