Serial Sex Attacker Wins Lotto
“A rapist serving life in a British prison has won �7 million ($17.96m) on the country’s National Lottery, it has been reported. Iorworth Hoare, 52, was on temporary weekend release at a bail hostel when his lucky numbers came up in Saturday’s draw. Before the huge win, Hoare — who was jailed for life in 1989 — was considered a low-security detainee at Leyhill open prison in Gloucestershire, central England, and was allowed to spend weekends away. However now he was rich Hoare had been moved to a higher-security jail and refused leave, The Sun reported. ‘There’s always a danger that when you let someone out on weekend leave and they’ve got lorry-loads of cash, that the first thing they’ll do is buy a plane ticket to Rio,’ an anonymous prison source told the paper.” —News.com.au (Australia)
At first sight, this is the kind of story that just makes you want to scream out: “Life isn’t fair!” Here you have a guy who committed all sorts of brutal sex attacks over a period of sixteen years, and he has the good fortune to win a bucket of cash in the local lottery. How is it that a person who has done so much bad can end up being rewarded with such incredible luck? No wonder there is an outcry in the UK demanding that a law be passed to prevent criminals from playing the lottery. (Statistically, though, the law is probably not necessary. What are the odds this could happen again?)
Once you get over this outrage, though, you can see that there may be more to this guy’s luck than meets the eye. In the first place, though he has won millions of dollars, he’s lost the little bit of liberty that he had. As the story states, he is no longer allowed weekends off. In the second place, how can a guy serving a life sentence in prison possibly enjoy the money? There’s no point in buying a new house or a swank car. He can’t take a tour around the world. He can’t blow it on hookers or drugs. What can he do with it? The thought of being incapable of enjoying so much money might well drive a man crazy. Perhaps it could even be a new form of torture, like putting bread on the table in front of a man whom you’re deliberately starving to death. What else could make a man regret losing his liberty as much as suddenly acquiring the means to enjoy it? Probably he really repents his crimes now.
Charge him room and board.
In the US this would provoke huge civil lawsuits by the vitims, victims’ families.
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