Lottery winner's rape record

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The judge at Iorworth Hoare's trial 15 years ago told him: "every moment you are at liberty some woman is at risk".

According to newspaper reports at the time, lottery winner Hoare was jailed for life on May 17, 1989.

Mr Justice Rougier told him: "You have been found guilty on overwhelming evidence and your previous record shows you are a menace to women.

"It seems from the psychiatric reports that I have read that there is no psychiatric illness.

"Paramount in my mind is that every moment you are at liberty some woman is at risk and I believe it to be my duty to protect, so far as I am able, women from the risk you represent.

"This is the last in a long line of appalling offences committed against women and the only sentence I can pass is one of imprisonment for life."

Hoare showed no emotion as he left the dock.

Defending Hoare Timothy Bubb said in mitigation at Leeds Crown Court that Hoare clearly suffered from a personality disorder which could not be treated.

Iorworth Ivor Hoare, who gave his address as Seacroft Gate, Seacroft, Leeds, was convicted of attempting to rape a retired female schoolteacher aged 59 in Roundhay Park, Leeds, on February 22, 1988.

He denied the charge in court and claimed he was not the man who committed the offence.

Speaking to the press afterwards Detective Constable Philip Bailles said Hoare had been convicted of attempted rape at Leeds in June 1973 and was jailed for three years.

In November 1975 at Exeter he received four years for attempted rape.
In September 1978 at Leeds he was given four years for indecent assault and assault.

And on June 15, 1983 he was sentenced to seven years at Leeds Crown Court for rape and indecent assault, and was released on November 13, 1987.

 

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