Key worker who won £1million EuroMillions jackpot weeks after saving police officer on a bus says he won't quit his job at water treatment works or buy his wife a gift because 'she's got me'
- Anthony Canty says he will continue working despite £1m lottery jackpot win
- Mr Canty, 33, scooped the £1m prize weeks after saving a policeman's life
- When asked what gift he'd buy his partner, Mr Canty joked: 'She's already got me'
- The key worker from Essex initially thought he'd won £100,000 before his wife Katie Sullivan confirmed they were in fact millionaires from the May 5 draw
A key worker who scooped the £1million EuroMillions jackpot weeks after saving a policeman's life says he won't quit his job and hasn't bought his wife a gift because 'she's already got me'.
Anthony Canty, 33, from Maldon, Essex, who helped an officer who had a heart attack on the bus during lockdown, initially thought he had only won £100,000 before his wife Katie told him it was actually 10 times that as he travelled into work on the train.
The Father-of-two relived the incredible moment he found out he had the £1m winning ticket on ITV's Good Morning Britain this morning.
Anthony Canty, 33, who scooped the £1million EuroMillions jackpot weeks after saving a policeman's life said he will not quit his job on Good Morning Britain on Friday morning
Mr Canty, from Maldon in Essex, and partner Katie Sullivan celebrate their £1million win from the EuroMillions draw on May 5
He said: 'I was on the way to work 6.29 train from Whitton to London, reading the number's I checked my ticket and phoned my missus up. I said "I think I've won the lottery" she said "don't lie to me". I said "nah I'm being serious I think I've one £100,000". She phoned me back and said "No Anthony you've won £1million".
'I'm still carrying on going to work, I love my job. Works in water treatment on closed water system maintaining water quality. I can't go out and spend it but I'll take my kids to Disneyland Florida (Roxy and Tallulah).
'What for the wife? She's got everything - she's got me.'
Mr Canty has worked throughout lockdown as an engineer maintaining the water quality for hospitals and care homes in central London.
Mr Canty had in April saved the life of a police officer who collapsed on a bus in Essex
On the bus home from Witham train station to Maldon one evening in April, a policeman who had also just finished his shift collapsed.
'Well just before lockdown this really lovely gentleman who gets on the bus who's a police officer, we travel into London and travel back home from London pretty much every day,' Canty said on TV on Friday morning.
'This one particular evening on our way home he just fell bang straight into my lap, it was quite scary actually. I've never been in that situation in my life but I am first aid trained.'
He said he rang the bell to stop the bus and gave the officer CPR with the help of the 999 operator.
The officer was airlifted to hospital and spent five days in intensive care.
Mr Canty said he stayed in touch with the officer's partner while he was in hospital and dropped off fruit and flowers and kept in contact after he recovered.
He said the officer told him 'Good karma happens to good people' after he informed about their lottery win.
Mr Canty's partner Katie Sullivan, 32, said: 'He said that Anthony's part of his family now.
'He said he's forever grateful as if it weren't for Anthony he wouldn't be here today. It's just amazing.'
The 33-year-old kept in contact with the officer, who has since recovered in hospital, and who said to Mr Canty 'good karma happens to good people'
Miss Sullivan, who has been with Mr Canty for 12 years and is a full-time mother to their two daughters aged eight and five, said he initially thought he had won £100,000.
Mr Canty rang his partner while he was on the train into work after he checked his ticket on his National Lottery app.
'I called Katie to tell her the good news but she wouldn't believe me and thought I was winding her up, so I gave her the numbers to check for herself,' said Mr Canty.
'I heard her log on and then she started screaming, and said "You div, it's one million, we're millionaires, you have to come home!"
The £1m win came in the May 5 EuroMillions draw, though Mr Canty originally thought he'd won £100,000 before his partner corrected him
Mr Canty says he intends to take Miss Sullivan and their two daughters to Disneyland once it's safe to travel, though will continue in his job as an engineer
He took the day off work while the news sank in and they celebrated with a bottle of Prosecco in the garden before sharing the news with friends and family.
'We may think about moving to a new house in the future but our main priority is to invest the money wisely so that our girls will be financially secure.'
Mr Canty is the 100th high-tier National Lottery winner to be paid out since lockdown started, classed as a win of £50,000 or more.
He bought his winning EuroMillions UK Millionaire Maker ticket at The Tolleyshop in Spital Road in Maldon.
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