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Rapist wins control of £7million lotto jackpot - after a 15 year fight

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A convicted rapist who won £7.2million after purchasing a lottery ticket whilst serving a prison sentence has been granted full access to the money.

Iorworth Hoare, 70, had been serving a life sentence for his attack on a woman when in 2004 he won the money whilst on leave from Leyhill open prison, Gloucestershire.

The daughter of one of his victims has urged him to give the cash to charity, just as her late mother did with the damages he was forced to pay her. READ MORE: Join the FREE Manchester Evening News WhatsApp community Shirley Woodman was 59 when Hoare, who committed a series of sex attacks in the 70s and 80s, attempted to rape her as she walked through Roundhay Park in Leeds, in 1988, the Mirror reports.

Twenty years later, Shirley won her fight to change the law so she could claim compensation from Hoare, who eventually had to pay £50,000 damages and almost £800,000 in legal costs.

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