A BUS driver who was left with nothing after his family home was burgled twice has won £6.1 million on the lottery.

Kevin Jones, 57, has driven his final bus route after scooping last Wednesday's £6,162,138 Lotto jackpot.

It comes just years after Kevin and his family lost everything after starting a new life in Spain.

Kevin, who is married to Michele, said: “Several years ago we had nothing. We were living in Spain and suffered two break-ins over one weekend and lost everything.

“Michele was so frightened we just drove back to England straight away and had to start all over again.”

On their return to England Kevin began working 12-hour shifts just to make ends meet.

“It is just amazing that this has happened,” Kevin said. “To think we had nothing and were working around the clock and now we have this.

“We really can now start to live the life of our dreams – something we never believed would happen to us.”

Kevin realised he had won the jackpot after his wife, Michele, 56, reminded him to check his numbers the day after the draw.

“I just thought ‘no, this isn’t right I have put the wrong numbers in or maybe I am looking at the wrong week’.

“I just screamed out to Michele. ‘I think I have won the lottery’. She said ‘great – is it £25?’ And I said ‘no, I have won the jackpot’.

“This all just doesn’t seem real. I cannot believe we have had this luck and won this incredible amount of money.”

Still unsure whether he had really won, Kevin, who works for D & G Bus Company, still showed up for work the next day.

He said: “I had just arrived in Newcastle when my phone rang and it was my wife telling me we really had won the lottery. It was just so much to take in.

“I tried to remain calm – I knew I had to drive the bus back to Crewe and look after all of my passengers.”

Kevin now plans to call it a day and enjoy his retirement in slightly more ‘leisurely’ fashion.

Kevin said: “I’m in the fortunate position where I can basically say that I’ve past my last bus stop, and I hope to spend the rest of my time rather more leisurely than I have been doing.

“I think it’s time to call it a day and retire.”

Kevin and Michele, who works as a teaching assistant at Sir William Stanier Academy in Crewe, have even put in a bid for their ‘modest dream home’ in South Cheshire.

Michele said she has yet to make a decision whether she will also retire.

Kevin said looking after Michele, his two children, Andrew, 30 and 32 year old, Lorraine, will be a top priority, together with his five-year-old grandson, Joshua.