Just one of Britain’s youngest EuroMillions winners forced to near his ZOO after ‘financial stress’

A ZOO bought by Britain’s youngest ever EuroMillions winner has been “shut down” amid apparent economic pressure.
Multi-millionaire Matthew Topham splashed out £600,000 dealing with his mother-in-regulation Jane to Rushmoor Nation Park in Louth, Lincs, as a Christmas reward in 2020.
He and spouse Cassey – who were just 23 when they won £45m in 2012 – made use of the jackpot to fill the petting zoo with horses, pigs, pygmy goats, llamas and ducks.
The pair also acquired a falconry centre to home falcons, owls, hawks and a sea eagle at the centre, which Jane experienced run for many years.
But the zoo is now “permanently closed”, according to TripAdvisor and Google – with the attraction’s site taken down and no social media posts considering the fact that last year.
Matthew became the youngest EuroMillions winner when he scooped an eye-watering sum in 2012 before Jane Park received her fortune a calendar year later on.
It comes two several years after he was sentenced for producing a car or truck crash that killed a pensioner.
Posts on the Rushmoor Farm Park and Falconry Centre’s Fb webpage present how workers were inquiring for woodchip donations and flogging hens for £20 just about every back in 2021.
And its most modern post in March 2022 tells its 6.6k followers: “After a whole lot of considered, we have come to the choice not to open up this calendar year (2022).
“We will keep all people up-to-date on future designs, at the time they have been decided on.”
In accordance to most current accounts submitted to Businesses House two months back, as of March 2022 Rushmoor State Farm Park had net liabilities of £422,139.
The document also states that creditors contain a lot more than £1m owed to director Cassey, 34, although compensation will not be sought “until the enterprise has enough cash to help it to do so”.
Site visitors have taken to social media to enquire when the park is owing to reopen, but have not acquired a response.
The zoo’s closure is the latest blow for the couple after Matt, now 34, admitted careless driving just after causing a deadly car crash on Xmas Day, 2019.
Passenger Mary Jane Regler, 75, died in the head-on collision with Matt’s automobile following the lotto winner took his eyes off the road to discover his young son’s teddy.
Her partner Rodney, 77, who was driving the other vehicle, was critically hurt in the horror smash in North Cockerington, Lincs.
A jury at Lincoln Crown Court cleared Topham of causing demise by perilous driving in 2021.
He had admitted a lesser demand of careless driving right before trial.
Sentencing him to 16 months in jail, suspended for two several years, Choose Catarina Sjolin Knight informed the EuroMillions winner he “now experienced the burden of having a lifestyle.”
Matt, of Swinderby, Lincs., was eliminated as director of the zoo in September with spouse Cassey taking around as the sole director, accounts display.


Locals are upset by the apparent closure of the park, with one producing on the internet: “we’ve been coming right here considering that I was a baby these kinds of a shame” and some others contacting it “so sad”.
Some speculated that chicken flu may possibly be a explanation for problems, though a different penned: “Very unusual predicament this. You need to have additional price savings than me”.
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