Jake Bowman (pictured) won the life-changing £10million in 2016. He said at the time he had celebrated by going to the pub
The £10million jackpot winner who crashed his Audi S3 into a student’s car while four times over the drink drive limit has been fined just £500.
Jake Bowman’s £33,000 car slammed into the 23-year-old Chloe Forbes’s vehicle after an hours-long boozing session in Forfar, Angus.
However, the millionaire lout avoided prison today, walking from court with just a fine and a year-long driving ban.
During the brief hearing today, Bowman was described as retired.
And law dictates that fines are linked to ‘the means of the offender’. His life-changing Lottery win in 2016 was not mentioned.
Chloe was driving two miles from her parents’ house in Kingsmuir, Angus, on April 8 when she was shunted across the road by Bowman.
She had been on her way to Forfar to pick up a textbook from a friend.
The 61-year-old was returning to his £360,000 house at 10.30pm after a pub session which had left him four times over the limit.
The father-of-two slammed into Chloe’s four-year-old Toyota Yaris sending it spinning across the B9128. Her car came to rest facing the wrong way.
Recalling the incident to The Sun which has left her with crippling anxiety, she said: ‘I saw him coming towards me for a while but I felt so powerless. There was nothing I could really do.’
Student Chloe Forbes (pictured) revealed today how she still suffers from crippling anxiety in the wake of the horror smash
Bowman hit Chloe’s Toyota Yaris, shunting is across the B9128 until it came to rest facing the wrong way
‘I had to sit down on the pavement because I was hyperventilating. I thought I was going to faint. I was in shock and started having a panic attack.
She added: ‘I can’t compose myself. I can’t get to sleep at night because as soon as I close my eyes I have flashbacks to the accident.’
Chloe’s car’s airbags had deployed and she was forced to escape through a side window as the door had become mangled and jammed.
Passers-by stopped to help and Bowman told one one that he had been drinking.
Chloe was taken to Ninewells Hospital in Dundee with a suspected broken sternum and shattered rib.
Medics later found Chloe had only suffered minor injuries like cuts and bruises.
The court heard how Bowman has tested at 111 microgrammes of alcohol per 100ml of breath after the crash when the legal limit is 22
The 61-year-old had been returning to his £360,000 home after drinking in Forfar, Angus
Forfar Sheriff Court heard how Bowman, who knows Chloe’s parents, was breathalysed by police at the scene.
He had 111 microgrammes of alcohol per 100ml of breath. That amount dropped to 92 microgrammes when he was tested at the police station. The legal limit is 22.
In the wake of her ordeal Chloe was unable to sit through lectures on her occupational therapy degree at Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen.
She was also forced to miss an important placement.
Sentencing, Sheriff Gregor Murray told Bowman: ‘It might only have been two miles to your house and you knew the road but there are dangerous stretches and a series of nasty bends.’
‘It could have been a lot worse,’ he added.
Bowman admitted to drink-driving but was cleared of the more serious charged of dangerous driving.