When student Richard Newman found a Monopoly sticker on his McDonald's meal, he had no idea what it was.

So the 35-year-old simply threw it away, not realising it was the rarest sticker in the game - and it could have won him half a million pounds.

The PhD philosophy student and his girlfriend collected the Mayfair card when they bought burgers and french fries at a drive-thru McDonalds.

Not knowing it was for the Easy Win Monopoly game, they stuck it to his car steering wheel, and later threw it away.

But two weeks later, he visited the restaurant again and won the matching Park Lane sticker.

Twigging that they could have won a prize, his girlfriend Chloe Gray, 27, checked on the rules of the game.

And the couple then discovered that the pair of properties could have netted them £500,000.

But by that time Mr Newman had cleaned out his Toyota Corolla and simply thrown the sticker in a wheelie bin.

The disappointed student told The Sun that when they were given the original sticker at the McDonald's in Sheffield they had not known about the competition.

Mr Newman told the paper: 'If I'd have been playing the game, I'd have known I'd struck gold.' >>Read More

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