A multi-millionaire lottery winner has vanished following a devastating blaze that destroyed his North London house two months in the past.
Roger Robar, who scooped £6 million in 1996, had been residing in a modest £200,000 ground-floor flat in Enfield earlier than the fireplace.
The whereabouts of the previous seafood chef stay unknown after flames gutted his property.
A good friend instructed MailOnline: "He used to reside right here, till his flat caught on hearth about two months in the past. I don’t know what prompted it."
The Martinique-born chef's life reworked dramatically after his windfall almost three a long time in the past.
Initially, he embraced his newfound wealth, buying a £400,000 property in Crouch Finish and a £40,000 Vary Rover.
He purchased the restaurant the place he had beforehand labored for £250 per week and relaunched it as Roger's Seafood.
He additionally purchased a £350,000 magnificence salon for his hairdresser spouse Mary.
Nonetheless, the pressures of wealth drove him to desert Britain for France merely three years after his win.
His return to the UK noticed him residing way more modestly than throughout his millionaire heyday.
The fortune that originally promised freedom grew to become a supply of torment for Roger.
His psychological well being deteriorated severely as requests for cash flooded in from all instructions.
"I remorse it day and night time. Final week I awoke sobbing and shouting, 'God, I made a horrible mistake, please assist me,'" he revealed.
The chef described his millionaire existence as a "suffocating hell."
His marriage to Mary crumbled inside three years of the win.
The fixed monetary calls for and ensuing conflicts proved insurmountable, in the end destroying their relationship.
His generosity knew few bounds initially, with £1.5 million distributed to charitable causes.
But the fixed bombardment of begging letters and monetary calls for grew to become overwhelming.
"If individuals ask me, I give it to them. However for each one individual I give to, there are a whole bunch who need extra from me," Roger defined in 1999. His spouse's kin proved significantly demanding.
"I didn't simply marry Mary – I married her mom, father, aunties, uncles, and cousins," he mentioned.
The day by day cheque-writing for relations in the end poisoned his marriage and compelled his escape to France.
Earlier than disappearing, Roger operated Roger's Catering Service, promoting meals at £10 every.
His 2023 social media posts promoted "three of the perfect recipes together with meals and juices" for weight reduction and well being situations.
His Fb presence featured cooking movies with enjoyable music, exhibiting him making ready fish stews and desserts.
Photographs depicted him in chef's whites, sporting a Liverpool shirt, or enjoyable at house.
Remarkably, his on-line profiles contained no references to his lottery windfall or subsequent struggles.
The previous millionaire appeared to have utterly erased his jackpot previous from public view.