Scot who scooped £100k Lottery scratchcard caught with £150k cocaine stash

A LOTTERY winner’s been locked up after he admitted being a drug dealer.

Jack Tanbini scooped a £100,000 jackpot when he was just 19 after he spent a quid on a scratchcard.

He vowed to save some of the windfall but five years later he revealed he was almost out of cash.

His luck has finally run out and he’s now behind bars after cops caught him with super strength cocaine at his home in Dundee.

They also uncovered money and a list of punters who were in debt to him.

A beak warned him he now faces a long spell behind bars.

The High Court in the city was told police raided Tanbini’s flat on two separate occasions.

During the first operation officers discovered a block of cocaine and a bag of the substance, along with £6,400 in cash.

The Dundee Courier revealed the court heard the drugs had a potential street value of more than £153,000.

Prosecutors said Tanbini was not at home when the first search warrant was executed in August 2022.

But he was found in a black VW Golf owned by his partner.

Cops claimed they found him with two mobile phones and on one of them they uncovered Snapchat messages related to drug dealing.

Prosecutor David Logan said: “The accused was taken back to the flat and volunteered to officers that what they were looking for was in the bedroom cupboard and had nothing to do with his partner.

“A block of white powder, a bag of white powder and various paraphernalia was recovered including digital scales with white powder, cash and bags with sachets.”

Judge Lord Summers was told that the cocaine was more than double the standard purity level for drugs in Scotland.

Cops revealed a second raid of the property in October 2022 netted £13,415 in cash but no drugs.

At the High Court in Dundee this week, Tanbini confessed to dealing cocaine between August and October 2022.

He has been free as he’s waited to go on trial for more than two years.

But Lord Summers locked him up ahead of his sentencing in January.

The judge said: “I am not inclined on the basis of the information given to me to allow you to continue to remain on bail so you will be remanded in custody as of today’s date.”

Tanbini faces even more court action in 2025 as prosecutors try to seize the cash through the Proceeds of Crime Act.

It’s all a far cry from his brief moment in the spotlight back in 2014 when he won £100,000 on a purple scratchcard.

The cash and carry apprentice helped a newsagent unload a delivery and was given a packet of crisps for free.

He used the cash he saved to buy the scratchcard and couldn’t believe his luck.

At the time he vowed to give his mum some of the money, splash some on a holiday and put some aside for his future.

But by 2019 most of the winnings were gone and cops caught him with £100,000 of cannabis.

They had pulled him over for dangerous driving after he drove his car on the wrong side of the road, mounted a kerb and overtook a bus.

At the time, his lawyer Jim Caird said: “He has had five years where he hasn’t had to work. He has something like £2,000 left.”

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