A Leicester lottery winner fails to claim £1m prize Published duration 9 July 2012

image caption Alan and Kim Elliott, from Nottingham, did not claim their lottery prize for two months

A lottery player who won £1m on a ticket bought in Leicester has failed to claim their prize.

Lottery organisers Camelot said the window for claiming the Euromillions winnings closed at 23:00 BST on Sunday.

Camelot said unclaimed money would be added to the money in the National Lottery Good Causes fund.

Leicester's lord mayor Abdul Osman started a countdown timer to the deadline near the Haymarket clock tower last week but the prize went unclaimed.

A spokesman for Camelot said: "Unfortunately, I can confirm that the ticket-holder did not come forward within the deadline to claim their prize and has now sadly missed out on this substantial amount of money.