English lottery winner sues sister over Australian property deal

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SYDNEY (AFP) — A multi-millionaire English lottery winner is suing his sister, claiming she cheated him out of a luxury investment property in an Australian tourist resort.

Clyde Baxter, 35, a former butcher from Leicester, shot to riches in April 1999 when he won 6.75 million pounds (12.6 million US dollars) in Britain's National Lottery.

He told the Queensland Supreme Court in Brisbane on Monday that he gave his sister Virginia Baxter 500,000 pounds out of his winnings. He said she also talked him into buying a 1.3 million Australian dollar (996,000 US) property in Surfers Paradise in the state of Queensland.

Baxter testified that his sister told him he could not buy the property in his own name because he only had a business visa, and that he should...