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Red or Black? £1 Million Winner Says Payout Ruined His Life After Threats Conviction

Sentencing is set next month in Ayr Sheriff Court for his conviction over menacing messages to a former friend.

Overview

  • He was convicted for sending violent voice notes to businessman Jason Gollop in July 2025 after a fallout over work and housing.
  • Nathan Hageman, 46, says the 2011 jackpot was the worst thing that happened to him and claims he was blackmailed by people who learned he had money.
  • He now has 16 convictions for 45 offences, including a five-year sentence in 2006 for a domestic‑abuse-related offence and a 2014 harassment case.
  • In 2024 he was jailed for 12 weeks for stealing a nurse’s handbag at Royal Berkshire Hospital and attempting to take her car.
  • Weeks after the threatening messages, he was reported to have fled two Kilmarnock restaurants without paying in a so‑called double dine‑and‑dash.