Yes, he should keep it.
A convicted rapist who won £7.2million on the lottery has gained full access to his jackpot after a 15-year legal battle.
Iorworth Hoare, 70, bought the winning Lotto Extra ticket in August 2004 while on weekend leave from Leyhill open prison in Gloucestershire.
He was not allowed unlimited access to his winnings due to conditions of his release from prison on licence. Hoare is understood to have been paid a monthly allowance of £8,666 after his release in 2005.
Hoare could only access the rest of his fortune if allowed to by fund trustees, consisting of a Home Office official, his lawyer and his accountant. But now he has full control of it, plus interest, following a legal case launched in 2008.
Now the daughter of one of his victims, the late Shirley Woodman – who was 59 when Hoare attempted to rape her while she was walking in Roundhay Park in Leeds, in 1988 – has urged him to give the money to charity, The Mirror reports.
Shrugs. He won it. It’s his. That he is a vile person is neither here nor there. You can’t have the law deciding who may or may not keep their winnings.
Hoare was jailed for life in 1989 for attempting to rape Mrs Woodman. He had had six previous convictions for rape and other sex offences since 1973.
Of course, if life actually meant life, then this wouldn’t be an issue. But that’s another argument.
What a wonderful world it would be if only nice people were allowed to collect their gambling winnings.
Yep, and hopefully given his wealth he will not be eligible for any benefits and will be able to afford legal fees for any of his former victims who might want to take any sort of civil action.
And if like minded criminal vermin now see him as a juicy target, well, such entrepreneurship is laudable.
Presumably his victims can now sue for damages then? I bet the lawyers would be salivating at the chance of suing a criminal who has millions in the bank. Most of them have nothing so its not worth suing them. But a convicted multiple rapist with loads of assets will be a walking target I would have thought.
Yup, I’m fine with that.
Won’t civil claims be time barred?
Not related to this story, but you may be interested to know about a poll on the Mirror’s site about the really scary new variant of the Moronic corona strain – “should masks be reintroduced?”
As the Mirror is a lefty rag, and most of its readers are terrified lefties who supported governments removing people’s liberties with lockdowns and masks, you won’t be surprised to know that 69% of people voted that, yes, masks should be reintroduced.
Well, if you want to wear a mask, you wear a fucking mask. But not me. Not again. I’m not wearing a bloody mask for something that is now about as dangerous as the common cold.
As far as this story is concerned, you are quite right. If a life sentence actually meant life, then this nasty piece of work would never have been released and the matter of his lottery winnings would not be a problem.
I never wore one at all. I refused.
I wish I had refused too. However, I didn’t have the courage. I was too afraid of being accosted by some jobsworth supermarket security guard. I will certainly refuse to wear a mask in any future ‘pandemic’.
On the occasions I was asked, I just said that I was exempt.
Me too, and I never caught covid despite being in contact with people who had it. My respiratory Dr. said not to wear one. I never had any problems and I am particularly vulnerable by age and having lost half a lung.
“You can’t have the law deciding who may or may not keep their winnings.”
Well, you could. The Lottery could have a rule that prohibits convicted felons from winning. I wouldn’t necessarily be against that. (I won’t be at the front of the crowd clamouring for it either, but I can appreciate the argument.)
But it doesn’t, so… yeah. It’s his.
If the lottery company had such a rule and it was clear upfront, then, yes, that would be fine. Private contracts and all that.
As an atheist I find this story quite interesting. Either there is no god, or there is a god and he is a sick twat. Of course he could be moving in mysterious ways for the greater good, but it’s a damn sight more likely that he just doesn’t exist.
On the subject of being outraged. Yes it is infuriating when such an evil person wins a fortune on a game of chance. But you need to beware outraged people, just taking people’s money from them because it has been decided without any legal framework that they don’t deserve it, is that what you want? Because, once that precedent has been established, there is nothing to stop the state inventing a reason for taking everything that you have.