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Parliament surely cannot have intended to exclude the victims of deliberate assault from the new rights it gave other victims in 1975, one of the country's senior judges has said.
Lord Brown thought it "inconceivable" that MP's had intended to exclude people who had been intentionally injured when the law was changed to help those who had been harmed merely through someone’s carelessness. And the benefits Parliament gave those victims in 1975 were considerable.
Iorworth Hoare, who now likes to be known as Edward Thomas, had once attempted
to blend in with his neighbours in Ponteland,
an affluent suburb of Newcastle upon Tyne.
Describing himself as a retired lawyer, he invited neighbours round for drinks and indulged his passion for arts and antiques by visiting galleries and buying curios at various fairs.
Should Hoare have been able to play the lottery while he was still on prison licence
Which meant he was still serving his sentence.
A fair and balanced judgment
"Inconceivable"
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