My mum gave £50K she won from rapist to charity..that's what he should do with his £7m

THE daughter of one of Lotto rapist Iorworth Hoare’s victims has urged him to give his cash to charity, just as her late mother did with the damages he was forced to pay her.

- JEREMY ARMSTRONG and LUCY THORNTON

Shirley Woodman was 59 when Hoare attempted to rape her as she walked through Roundhay Park, Leeds, in 1988.

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.

After learning that Hoare now has full access to his £7.2million jackpot, Shirley's daughter Shelley Wolfson, 67, told the Mirror: "She gave all the money away to charity and it's what he should be doing with his money. He can do good with that money, like my mum did." Shirley, a "magnificent" former head teacher, died last year, aged 92, but left a legacy for other victims of sexual assault.

Hoare had been serving life for his attack on Shirley when he won in 2004 and she was incensed when she heard, telling the BBC in 2012: "It seemed wrong that he had been in prison at our expense that is, the taxpayers' expense. He should be paying back that money.

"The victims also got money from the state and he should be paying that back.

She sued Hoare for damages but he used the law of limitations, which put a six-year limit on claims for compensation, to fight her claim.

The determined mother-of-three, known only as "Mrs A" at the time, spent four years pursuing her case through the courts, to the House of Lords.

In 2008, she won a ruling from the Law Lords that, in cases of serious assault, the courts would have the discretion to extend the six-year limit.