Posted on 04/12/2006 4:22:02 PM PDT by Paddlefish
An elderly victim of the Lotto rapist Iorworth Hoare faces a potential legal costs bill of £100,000 after losing her appeal against a court’s refusal to allow her to claim damages against her attacker.
The former teacher, now 77, sought compensation for the psychiatric injury she suffered in the wake of the "violent and disgusting" attempted rape. But her claim was rebuffed by the courts today.
She was 59 when Hoare, who had previously subjected six other women to serious sexual assaults including rape, attacked her as she walked in Roundhay Park, Leeds, in 1988. Hoare, 53, was jailed for life the following year and spent 16 years in prison. It was while on day release late in 2004, before being freed on parole the following March, that he bought the ticket which netted him a £7.2 million Lotto win.
The woman, who cannot be identified, was also ordered to pay an estimated £100,000 towards the legal costs of her assailant who lives in a £700,000 six-bedroom house near Newcastle.
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OOPS. A couple of errors in the title, etc. as it posted before I previewed. It was an attempted rape. But I'm still appalled at the injustice.
Well it would certainly set a new and different precedent. I'm still shaking my head.
Congratulations on composing a headline that stumped a grand puzzlemaster like Graymatter.
It sure stops many of the Shyster Lawyers from taking frivolous cases unlike the American scumbag lawyers who bleed the naive "plaintiffs" dry.
That's the problem, the only problem, in this case. Of course we have some of the same here in this country.
Coming to a Souter, Kennedy, Stevens court near you...
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