August 19, 2004
WHO NAMED THIS GUY, DICKENS?:
RAPIST PLANS HUGE SPREE (Sky News, 8/19/04)
The sex attacker who landed a £7m lotto jackpot has drawn up a shopping list as he prepares to leave jail. [...]Posted by Orrin Judd at August 19, 2004 7:12 PMSmug Hoare has told other cons: "Anything I want is mine. I'm unstoppable".
His first name isn't "Smug," it's "Iorworth," which unfortunately means "handsome lord," so it still Dickensian. (The meaning of "life sentence," however, has been lost over time.)
If it helps, a lot of lottery winners apparently go through their money really fast and end up as poor as they were.
Posted by: Just John at August 19, 2004 7:29 PMHis first name isn't "Smug," it's "Iorworth," which unfortunately means "handsome lord," so it's still Dickensian. (The meaning of "life sentence," however, has been lost over time.)
If it helps, a lot of lottery winners apparently go through their money really fast and end up as poor as they were.
Posted by: Just John at August 19, 2004 7:29 PMIs "You're worth whore" really an improvement?
Posted by: oj at August 19, 2004 7:36 PMWith a name like that, it's as if his career was marked from birth.
Though some rise above their name; like Loser, who turned out to be a winner, while his brother Winner was a loser.
Posted by: pj at August 19, 2004 8:25 PMIn other news, his victims announced a lawsuit against him for 7 million quid.
Posted by: Robert Schwartz at August 19, 2004 9:22 PMWill he survive to get out of prison?
Posted by: jim hamlen at August 19, 2004 9:52 PMIf he's licensed to practice in their country and the rapist's victims can get his phone number, I think we've finally found a useful purpose for John Edwards...
Posted by: John at August 20, 2004 8:11 AMWhat I found interesting on the SkyNews page was 'drive by shooting.'
There's something the UK didn't have much of in the old days
Posted by: Harry Eagar at August 20, 2004 5:18 PM