UK News 11-08-2004 Serial Rapist Wins £7 Lotto Jackpot who: Rapist Iorworth Hoare what: Wins £7,039,469 Lotto jackpot where: MIDDLESBROUGH when: This weekend snippet: "A serial rapist serving a life sentence has won £7 million on the lottery," says The Times. "Iorworth Hoare, 52, was on weekend leave at a bail hostel in Middlesbrough when he bought his ticket for last Saturday`s Lotto Extra." "I’m going to be sound for the rest of my life," he told a friend at the hostel, according to The Mirror. "I`ll do well from here on in until the day I die." "Hoare began his terrifying and degrading attacks while still in his twenties and was sentenced to a total of 18 years between 1973 and 1987," says The Sun. "Following his release, he attempted to rape a 60-year-old woman in a Leeds park and was finally jailed for life in May 1989." "Bizarrely," remarks a report on The Mail`s website, "he was trapped by a photograph he sent to a television station in a effort to be chosen for the Winner Takes All quiz show." "Under Home Office guidelines prisoners on temporary release from jail are allowed to play the lottery," confirms the BBC. [... more]

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