Father-of-two Darryl Henley, who despite being 26 always gets asked for ID, will be the first person in the UK to use their mobile phone to prove their age.

Mr Henley won a new iPhone 3 complete with a miniaturised smart sticker to prove his age from Touch2id, which is trialling fingerprint ID techonology in Trowbridge.

Like the cards, the Touch2id sticker can be read by readers which are now being used by retailers all over Trowbridge who sell alcohol and cigarettes, to prove age.

Mr Henley, from Queen’s Road, Westbury, received his phone from Touch2id after enrolling for the company’s proof of age scheme just a week earlier.

He won the first draw for the iPhone prize, the first of five iPhones being given away over the next few weeks to promote the new proof of age scheme.

Touch2id now has an enrolment centre in The Shires shopping centre in Trowbridge and also in the town’s main Post Office.

To enrol, young people take their passport or driving licence (including the counterpart), where it is checked for authenticity.

Individual aspects of a fingerprint are converted into a unique binary code which is encrypted on to their free card which is immediately ready for use.

Mr Henley said: “I’m always being asked for ID to prove my age, even when I’ve got my sons with me.

“I’m chuffed to bits. I’ve only ever won £10 on the lottery before.

“My sister came with me to The Shires to enrol last week and when she checked on Facebook and told me I’d won. I just couldn’t believe it.

“I’d been using their card for about a week and it’s so cool, you can see it’s much more convenient for the bars too and my mates really enjoy using their cards, it’s gone down well.

“It’s absolutely amazing to be the first person to be using a phone to prove my age, I still can’t really believe it and it’s really lucky because my own mobile has just broken.’’

The Touch2id sticker on his new mobile holds the same details as his Touch2id card so all he has to do to prove his age is put the phone over the Touch2id reader, instead of the card and present the finger he used to enrol.

Company founder Matthew James said: “It seems Darryl has become a minor celebrity among his friends and we’re delighted he’s won the first draw.”

Managing director Giles Sergant said: “Darryl is certainly the first to prove age using a mobile in this way in the UK, but we think this might well be a global first too.

“We’re running the iPhone draw throughout March before the stickers go on sale sometime in April.

Existing cardholders wanting stickers will just need to bring their card into the enrolment centre when the stickers go on sale and we’ll duplicate their details from card to sticker.”

Wiltshire is the first county in the UK to get Touch2id scheme.