EXCLUSIVE: Halfina Eddy-Evans told how she played a role in disposing of the computer hard drive which was worth £569million but claims it was done on his orders - and accidentally.
A woman has revealed how she accidentally threw away the 'key' to her boyfriend's £569million Bitcoin fortune, as he fights for the right to search a huge landfill in an attempt to find it.
'The computer part had been disposed of in a black sack along with other unwanted belongings and he begged me to take it away, saying"There's a bag of rubbish here to be taken to the tip". Ms Eddy-Evans broke her silence after Mr Howells, 39, has vowed to take a council to court in his final bid to unearth the 'key' to a Bitcoin jackpot.
Soon afterwards James knocked a glass of lemonade over his laptop and despite efforts to clean it, it never worked properly again. Recalling the time her then partner asked her to do a favour, she explained: 'He said there were a few black sacks of rubbish to take to the tip, three or four, and he asked me to do it.
Read MoreEXCLUSIVE Inside the landfill hiding £1.5bn in Bitcoin: Security teams and cameras guard dump around the clock over fear treasure hunters could try to DIG it up 'But now he thinks it could be worth a fortune and he is still fighting the council. It has been going on a long time.''Part of me thinks the council should let the tip site be dug up, it's not helping his mental health with the thoughts of sitting in a fortune he can't get.
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