Terrified neighbours of lotto jackpot rapist Iorworth Hoare are too scared to let their daughters go jogging alone in the village as he wins full access to his £10m fortune

•  Lotto rapist Iorworth Hoare, 70, won 15-year battle to access £10m fortune
•  His neighbours say they live fear and will not let their daughters jog alone
• READ MORE:  Meet the winners whose lives went downhill after winning jackpots

Neighbours are living in fear and won’t let their daughters job alone at night after lottery jackpot rapist lorworth Hoare moved back to his village. 

The rural community said they are even more uneasy now that he has won access to his £10 million fortune following a long legal battle.

Despite him supposedly being rehabilitated, he is now one of the most hated people in the village as the residents say his presence in the village is similar to a black cloud, according to the Sun.

One villager said: ‘None of us dare approach him or get into a dispute in case he takes us to court, especially now he’s got all his money.

‘We are a really close-knit community. Since he’s moved in, it’s been like a black cloud.’

Convicted rapist Iorworth Hoare return home has led to villagers living in fear as they are now too scared to let their daughters go jogging alone

Hoare (pictured in 2012), now 71, has spent the years since his release from prison carefully building up a property portfolio and fine art collection 

Hoare was an inmate at Leyhill open prison in Gloucestershire when he won the lottery jackpot while on weekend release during 2004. He was sentenced to life in 1989

Other residents also claim their lives have been turned upside down since his arrival and they are now too scared to let their daughters out and some drive to other areas to go for a walk. 

One parent said: ‘It’s been a nightmare since he moved in.

‘I’ve got daughters and was scared to let them out in the village without an escort.

‘My wife drove behind them when they were out running to make sure they were safe.’

The rapist property tycoon, who turned 71 today, won £7.2million from a Lotto Extra ticket while on weekend leave from Leyhill open prison in Gloucestershire in August 2004.

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.

Following a legal case launched in 2008, Hoare now has full access to his fortune. This has now ballooned to more than £10million due to shrewd investments

This includes his property portfolio and fine art earnings.

Before he won access to his millions he could only use his money with the consent of trustees, which included a Home Office official and Hoare’s lawyer and accountant.

Custody photo of Iorworth Hoare from 1989

As well as his lotto fortune he has a beautiful detached home in the countryside has increased in price by a quarter-of-a-million pounds and Hoare is said to make more than £300,000 annually from offices he rented to Devon County Council in 2008.

Bradninch Hall is also home to 45 parking spaces, which rake in approximately £100,000-a-year.

Hoare has previously claimed to have a property portfolio that earns him a whopping £250,000 in rent every year.

In 2008 he reportedly boasted to friends about being worth more than £10million – just three years after leaving prison.

The rapist also toyed with the idea of becoming a children’s author and sent stories to a publisher under a pen name.

But there have been costly legal cases to drain his bank balance.

Hoare spent years and nearly £800,000 contesting a claim from one of his victims, Shirley Woodman, who won in court nearly 20 years. 

This was after he tried to rape her in Leeds in 1998 while she was walking in Roundhay Park.

The daughter of one of his victims, the late Shirley Woodman (right, with daughter Shelley Wolfson) – 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

Daily Mail’s front page on August 11, 2004  when Hoare won lottery jackpot

He was forced to pay her £50,000 in damages.  

Mrs Woodman donated her money to charity and her daughter Shelley Wolfson, 67, has said Hoare should give his money to charity, just as her ‘wonderful’ mother did. 

Hoare was jailed for life in 1989 for attempting to rape Mrs Woodman who died last year aged 92. 

He had had six previous convictions for rape and other sex offences since 1973.

The retired teacher sued Hoare for damages when she heard of his win but he contested the claim, arguing that victims of sex attacks must make their claims within six years.

In 2008, Mrs Woodman fought to get the law changed, winning a groundbreaking ruling from the Law Lords that, in cases of serious assault, courts would have the discretion to extend that time limit.

Her legal breakthroughs have led to other victims of sexual abuse, such as those abused by Jimmy Saville and survivors of Rotherham grooming gangs, to be able to claim compensation.

Mrs Woodman, who had previously only been known as Mrs A, waived her right to anonymity after being awarded an MBE in 2012.

‘It was a fantastic struggle. It was a long and traumatic one and it was very hard at times,’ she told the BBC at the time.

She said she was ‘very proud’ to receive an MBE after being nominated by her daughter.

She had four grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren, and was a key part of the community in Roundhay, Leeds. She was headteacher of the Netherlands Avenue School in Bradford.

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