Melissa Ede death: Lottery winner dies one year after winning £4m

Taxi driver Melissa Ede, 57, celebrating at Willerby Manor Hotel in Hull after her £4m Scratchcard win on New Year's Day.
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Lottery winner Melissa Ede has died aged 58, a year after winning £4m on a scratchcard.

Ms Ede won the prize on the £4m Blue Scratchcard from National Lottery GameStore in January 2018.

The former taxi driver from Hull died on Saturday evening, a week after being taken to hospital when she was left “hardly able to breath” with “crushing chest pain”, Hull Daily Mail reports.

Her fiance Rachel Nason confirmed Ms Ede's death and her family said funeral arrangements are being made and details will be released to the public at a later date.

Taxi driver Melissa Ede, 57, celebrating after winning £4 in Hull
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The lottery winner woke up at around 5am on Monday 6 May with crushing pain and was taken to hospital where she had X-rays.

Ms Ede wrote about the ordeal in a series of Facebook posts, saying: “I would like to say a massive thank you to the Hull and East riding ambulance service and the staff at Hull Royal Infirmary for looking after me today.

“You’re amazing people doing an amazing job.”

She later commented on the post that it was a “possible heart attack but I’m all clear nothing wrong.”

However, following the announcement of her trip to hospital, the multimillionaire was flooded with cruel “death wishes".

She said in a video: “Funny really, some of these comments, you can’t believe them really.

“People saying, it’s a shame I’m not dead. Well I’ve got a message for those people, there is nothing actually wrong with this chicka or my lungs so you’ve got me for quite a while yet."

Speaking about her trip to hospital a week before her death, she told Hull Daily Mail: "I woke up at around 5am with crushing chest pain and hardly able to breathe. It lasted about half hour then I went back to bed.

"Then the same happened in the afternoon but worse. Rach ended up calling an ambulance and they came and did the usual tests and advised I went with them for further tests.

"I had blood tests, heart monitored, lungs X-ray, but they couldn't find anything so we still don't know what it was. The staff are amazing. I was there about five hours."

Her death came as ITV cancelled Monday's Jeremy Kyle show due to the death of a guest, a week after the programme in which they featured was recorded. The Evening Standard understands it is not connected to Ms Ede's death.