Multiple convicted rapist to collect 7 million won from lottery while in prison

He has been convicted of sexual assault several times and will now be able to claim his £7m bonus thanks to a ticket he bought while serving his sentence. The case of Iorworth Hoare, nicknamed the ‘fragmented rapist’, is causing controversy in the UK. The 70-year-old Briton was sentenced to life in prison in 1989 for attempting to rape a woman, after previously serving six convictions for rape and other sexual offenses since 1973.

Hoare purchased his winning Lotto Extra ticket while on weekend leave from Leyhill Prison in Gloucestershire in August 2004. After the win, he was denied unlimited access to the winnings due to the conditions of his licensed release from prison. The man is believed to have received an allowance of £8,666 a month after his release in 2005. Hoare had access to the remainder of his fortune only if allowed by the trustees of the fund, which consisted of a Home Office official, his lawyer, and his accountant. But after winning a 15-year lawsuit that began in 2008, he has full control over all the money plus interest he has earned.

The woman he tried to rape in 1988, Shirley Woodman, sued the attacker for psychological harm when he learned that he had won the lottery, but she disputed the claim, arguing that sexual assault victims must come forward with their claims within six years. It’s not over. In 2008, Ms. Woodman fought to amend the law with a groundbreaking decision from the House of Lords that the courts could extend the time limit in the event of a serious attack. The following year, he reached an out-of-court collusion and gave the entire deal to charity. Shelley Wolfson, Woodman’s 67-year-old daughter, told the Daily Mirror that her mother “given all the money to charities and that’s what she has to do with her money. She can do good with that money, as she did my mother.”

Source: Today IT

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