A hotel where a woman was brutally attacked and killed by a cannibal found eating her face has sold at auction for more than £250,000.
Cerys Yemm, 22, died having suffered 89 injuries in the attack by Matthew Williams, 34, who had been freed from prison two weeks before.
The shopkeeper had gone back to the room at the Sirhowy Arms Hotel in Bargoed, south Wales, with Williams who was was found in the room covered in blood following the sickening attack.
An inquest in 2017 was told Williams died himself when he was tasered by a lone police officer who attended the call-out.
Despite its notoriety, the hotel went up for sale and sold for £270,000 - £20,000 more than the asking price.
A trio of potential investors had been interested in the former hotel which was up for auction at Paul Fosh Auctions.
Angie Davey, regional valuer at the Newport-based auction house, said: “The new owners, successful at the auction, have bagged a whole lot of property for their money.”
A spokesman added: “Interested parties have been informed of the property’s history and most are keen to bid on it, regardless of its past.”
The sale comes five years after a jury ruled Cerys was unlawfully killed at an inquest into her death.
The inquest heard she was found with bruises, grazes, other bite marks and "sharp force trauma" - meaning "cutting" of the skin.
Killer Williams - who was high on drugs - was tasered four times in seven minutes by police and had 1.7 milligrams per litre of amphetamines in his blood.
The inquest jury found he died as a result of a "sudden unexpected death from a culmination of drug use and a struggle against restraint."
In 2014 it was reported Williams had been put up in the hostel by Caerphilly Council just after being released from prison.
In an interview with BBC programme Week In Week Out Sirhowy Arms’ then owner Mandy Miles said she had no idea of Williams' violent past.
She said: "I never thought for a single minute that I would be in danger or that anyone else would be in danger. I would never have let them through the door."
Williams’ mother Sally Ann told the BBC he had been a regular drug taker, suffered paranoid schizophrenia and refused her request for him to see a doctor.
She said: "He would see things that were not there, he would hear voices, say food was trying to poison him and he would hallucinate.
"He was aggressive to people he thought were a threat to him.”
