Thieves win more than £400,000 on scratchcard bought with stolen credit card - as victim of theft makes them an unlikely offer

Two homeless French men have caused a legal headache after buying a winning lottery ticket worth more than £400,000 while using a stolen credit card. The thieves stole the credit card after breaking into a car parked in the centre of the city on February 3, taking a backpack containing credit cards and identity documents belonging to a man identified only as Jean-David, say Le Parisien. Causing a major legal headache, two homeless men bought a winning scratchcard worth more than £400,000 - but legal experts have been left wondering who has the rightful claim to the cash The thieves stole the credit cards from a backpack within a parked car in the centre of Toulouse which belonged to a man identified only as Jean-David, 42 'He found their behaviour suspicious because they paid with one card then wanted to buy something else but it hadn't gone through and they couldn't put in the code.' After discovering they had won nearly £414,000, the pair returned to the shop to collect their winnings but were told to contact Française des Jeux, who run France's national lottery.