How owner of hotel in quaint rural village uncovered a ‘bloodbath’ as cannibal killer growled ‘there’s no girl here’
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“HE’S actually eating her,” were some of the only words hotelier Mandy Miles could manage after walking in on the bloodbath in room seven of her hotel. Drenched in blood and crouching over 22-year-old Cerys Yemm's body was drug-crazed Matthew Williams, who had launched a demonic attack where he "chewed" on her face and tore out her left eyeball.
![[Photo of Cerys Marie Yemm.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/2017-killer-experiencing-psychotic-episode-314150129.jpg?strip=all&w=519)
Alerted by her guests, Mandy heard screaming from the room of the hotel-turned-halfway house she owned in Argoed, a quaint South Wales village, and was forced to unlock the door to investigate. She was met with the grisly scene of Williams, 34, attacking shop worker Cerys with what she believed to be a screwdriver.
![[Close-up photo of Matthew Williams, a man convicted of murder.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/even-though-neighbouring-villagers-want-775381350.jpg?strip=all&w=507)
When asked "do you know what you're doing to that girl?”, he replied, chillingly: “That’s no girl.”. Williams was staying at the half-way house hostel after being freed from jail just two weeks before the killing. Cerys and Williams had met shortly before the November 2014 murder while on a night out in nearby town Blackwood, and then met up again on the evening of November 5.
![[A red and cream-colored hotel that was the site of a brutal murder.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/even-though-neighbouring-villagers-want-775381088.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
Williams lured unsuspecting Cerys back to his room at the Sirhowy Arms Hotel where he had been placed by the local authority following his prison release. He was a prolific offender with 26 convictions for 78 offences, 41 stints in juvenile custody and 14 adult jail terms.
![[Emergency responders in protective suits at a crime scene.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/inquest-due-start-today-mother-308583169_c31f77.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
Williams had also been a prolific user of drugs, including cannabis and amphetamines, since he was a teenager and reportedly suffered from schizophrenia. Just two days before killing Cerys, Williams told his mum that “the voices were back” and he was feeling paranoid.
![[Mugshot of Matthew Williams, the cannibal killer.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/999-call-seeing-cannibal-killer-309091155.jpg?strip=all&w=727)
